A campaign ad from a Republican congressional candidate from Indiana sums up the arrival of migrants at the border with one word. He doesn’t call it a problem or a crisis. He calls it an “invasion.” The word invasion also appears in ads for two Republicans competing for a Senate seat in Michigan. And it…
With a light blue academic robe tucked under her arm, Professor Marianne Hirsch hurried to get through a security line at a Columbia University entryway on Monday morning. To pass the gates, everyone had to scan IDs, in compliance with an announcement from the university’s administration that only students and faculty would be allowed on…
One of the largest Powerball jackpots in history has grown even larger, to $1.73 billion, after no one had the winning numbers in Monday’s lottery drawing. The next drawing, on Wednesday night, will be the second-largest jackpot ever in the United States. Huge jackpots have become increasingly common in the multistate Mega Millions and Powerball…
Over the decades, residents have gathered, feasted and proposed marriage beneath the 150-year-old banyan tree in the downtown area of Lahaina, Hawaii. But last month, after a fast-moving blaze tore through the town in West Maui, scorching the tree, some feared that it might not live on. Then, green shoots began to unfurl around the…
The manhunt for an escaped fugitive in the Philadelphia suburbs appeared to escalate on Friday afternoon as attention focused on the area around a sprawling botanical garden where the escapee had been seen twice in recent days. The number of officers searching for Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from the Chester County Prison on Aug. 31,…
Jason Musgrove has spent every day for the past two weeks trying to find out whether his mother is alive or dead. He and his stepfather drive to shelters, clinics and aid distribution sites around Maui, lurching between hope and despair, like hundreds of other families still searching for relatives and friends in the wake…
The president of Temple University in Philadelphia resigned on Tuesday after a brief and tumultuous tenure plagued by worsening crime around campus, a strike by graduate students and a loss of confidence in his leadership among some faculty. Jason Wingard, who became the university’s first Black president in 2021, sent a statement to the campus…