The failed execution of Christa Pike, which left her clinging to life in Tennessee, was the latest grisly error to take place in an American execution chamber.

The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.

Prioritize the contact that really makes a difference.

At an Indonesian prison complex near Jakarta, inspectors found expensive cars, spacious quarters with flat-screen TVs and a golf simulator under construction.

Before the law passed, navigating New York was a harrowing exercise in dog-feces avoidance. As he put it, sometimes “you would come home and have it all over you.”

Ottawa’s City Council decided that the street should no longer be named for President Trump, who recently signed an executive order changing Lake Ontario to Lake America.

The lawsuit was filed by one of 19 educators laid off in June amid a reorganization of the Manhattan university to address its financial problems.

In a report Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration squandered millions of dollars to expand detention.

High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Texas will appeal.

As temperatures in the country continue to approach 90 degrees Fahrenheit, inmates have been sleeping on concrete cell floors. Even the guards have complained.

When Donald Trump ran for office a decade ago, he called China a menace to the U.S. economy. Today, the Republican president has changed his tune.

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

Yes, John Wilson’s weird but fun movie is nominally about the stuff sidewalks are made of, but as always with his work, it’s about so much more.

The state reached a settlement with the family of Robert L. Brooks, who died after being beaten by prison guards in 2024.

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States.

For decades, the Mexican authorities have sacrificed a rural valley to flush away the capital’s waste and power the economy. Now, local communities are paying for that decision — often with peoples’ l...

The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog provided new details about conditions at the now-shuttered Florida detention center.

Schools and entire states are creating new rules forcing professors to teach more hours and show up at the office. At one university, professors quit in response.

We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.

Appeals court dismisses lawsuit from Jackson residents claiming that tainted drinking water violated their rights

In an era of heavy rain, a transit system with 47,000 openings is bound to leak.

New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.

A spoof of the G.O.P. convention site tricked people for weeks, before redirecting them to the Justice Department’s library of Epstein files.

A symbol of the hardening of America’s urban landscapes — and also a decent perch for a quick slice of pizza.

The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”

After decades as a coveted address in Syracuse, N.Y., the sprawling Nob Hill complex descended into neglect, squalor and death. One family paid a terrible price.

His 35-year reign opened an ancient monarchy to marriages with so-called commoners and to an incendiary association with Jeffrey Epstein.

There is a U.S.-led war in the Middle East and the midterm elections on the horizon, but President Trump’s latest priority seems to be “Making The Great Lakes Even Greater.”

A Florida man is facing three felony charges over the Aug. 20 vandalism of a plastic reproduction of one of the automated license plate readers, the authorities said.

Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, of Julian, Calif., was taken into custody for “being in possession of the guillotine,” the police said.

Officials announced on Monday a plan to overhaul the section of the highway that belongs to New York City. The road needs quick repair to remain safe for driving.

The president’s threat is his latest jab at Canada since trade talks between the two countries broke down.

In “The Time Tax,” the Atlantic journalist Annie Lowrey takes aim at bureaucratic red tape.

Local groups in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan opposed the plan, saying designs for two apartment buildings did not reflect the neighborhood’s historical character.

The death of Christopher Rodriguez is the first at the medical unit, which opened in April at Bellevue Hospital, for people incarcerated on Rikers Island.

Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country’s memory?

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and ‘appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes’

Tiny Hudson, Colo., was mostly known as a speed trap between plains and suburbs. Then ICE announced it was coming, setting off months of protests.