Eight Philadelphia high school students were shot and wounded as they waited for a public bus after school on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of shootings that have touched off outrage in the city, the police said. The students, who attend Northeast High School, were shot at about 3 p.m. as they waited at…
Like many people in the tiny town of Why, Ariz., Stephanie Fierro’s life revolves around the nearby border crossing. She works at a roadside café serving enchiladas to American tourists passing through on their way to beach resorts in Mexico. Her husband, a Mexican citizen, lives on the other side. That link was severed last…
Bystanders stopped a 26-year-old woman from setting fire to the home where Martin Luther King Jr. was born after she poured gasoline on it, the authorities said. Two visitors from Utah interrupted the woman as she was pouring gasoline on the porch and on the door of the home, Darin Schierbaum, the Atlanta police chief,…
The football team of Minor High School in Adamsville, Ala., had just beaten its opponent at an away game in Birmingham last week when Johnny Mims, the school’s band director, told his musicians to play three more tunes in celebration as the crowd prepared to file out of the stadium. After all, the Minor Tigers…
Kansas will no longer change the birth certificates of transgender people to reflect their gender identities, the state health department said on Friday, citing a new law that took effect this year that defines male and female as a person’s sex assigned at birth. The legislation, passed by the Republican-controlled State Legislature earlier this year,…
DES MOINES — Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that a lawsuit seeking to overturn federal approval of a widely used abortion pill amounted to an attack on “our public health system as a whole.” During her first trip to Iowa as vice president, Ms. Harris portrayed Republican attempts to impose a nationwide ban…
NASHVILLE — Five Memphis police officers were fired on Friday after the department found that they had used excessive force and failed to intervene or provide help during a traffic stop this month involving a 29-year-old Black man who died in a hospital three days later, officials said. The firings, which were the result of…
Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the world’s largest active volcano, which began erupting recently for the first time in nearly four decades to the delight of residents and tourists alike, has ceased doing so, scientists announced on Tuesday. Situated on the Big Island, Mauna Loa stopped erupting on Saturday, the day after Kilauea, another volcano on…
SACRAMENTO — Widening his attack on Republican states for their positions on guns, civil rights and abortion, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Wednesday called on Hollywood to “walk the walk” on liberal values by bringing back their film and television productions from states such as Georgia and Oklahoma. Mr. Newsom issued the challenge through…