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Shortly before Gov. Roy Cooper, a North Carolina Democrat, began his first term in 2017, his rivals in the Republican-controlled legislature voted to strip the position of key powers, including the governor’s...

Drought-like conditions in the Midwest over the summer have created a growing water problem in the New Orleans area this fall.Water levels of the Mississippi River have dropped low enough to make...

A Louisiana man convicted of attempted murder was returned to the United States this week after hiding in Mexico for more than 30 years, the F.B.I. announced on Wednesday.The man, Greg Lawson,...

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests, looting, and anger were boiling up in the streets of Boston, a city that has played host to both abolitionists and...

As the fall semester began at New College of Florida, a small public school known as proudly unconventional until Gov. Ron DeSantis set about overhauling it this year, new students were easy...

When Mississippi’s mostly white and Republican-controlled State Legislature voted last spring to add a state-run police force and court system atop the existing ones in the state’s mostly Black, Democratic-run capital, Jackson,...

Quizá sea que todavía le encanta el helado de mantequilla de maní. O tal vez sea el hecho de que sus Braves de Atlanta están en primer lugar, se perfilan hacia la...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met on Friday with African leaders seeking to restore Niger’s democratically elected government to power, capping a week at the United Nations in which the Biden...

In the end, no one will be held criminally responsible for the death nearly four years ago of a man who repeatedly exclaimed, “I can’t breathe,” as officers tried unsuccessfully to remove...

A typical weather system, which was producing stormy weather off the coast of Florida early Friday, could reach tropical storm strength, earning the name Ophelia before striking the Carolinas and moving through...