The president’s infrastructure proposals are likely to require trillions of dollars in new tax revenue. They also give liberals a chance to address what they call the failures of Republican tax cuts. Mr. Manchin’s belief in the need to keep the filibuster has set the stage for a collision between Democrats eager to use its majorities to pass sweeping legislation and a political throwback determined to restore bipartisanship. The virus has killed more than 300,000 people in Brazil, its spread aided by a highly contagious variant, political infighting and distrust of science. The psychological toll on young people of months in isolation and great global suffering is becoming more clear after successive lockdowns. The suspect in the mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket came from an immigrant family that had achieved many of the outward signs of success. But their life in America had not been untroubled. After Columbine, the media faced criticism for focusing on the assailants rather than on the victims. A lot has changed since 1999 — except the need to cover the tragedies in the first place. The Pentagon called the first 20 prisoners sent to Guantánamo in 2002 “the worst of the worst.” Just two remain there. Others are spread around the world — including four senior Taliban figures. Starting with the Bush administration, the United States has gradually transferred all but two of the first 20 prisoners at the wartime detention facility to other nations. Here’s who, and where, they are. The attack by hundreds of militants trapped nearly 200 people, including foreign workers, in a hotel in Palma, Mozambique, site of a major gas project. The aging movie star in Indianapolis, which was featured in the film “Hoosiers,” is too small to host national tournament games these days, but the pandemic has put it back in the spotlight. Reviving the South Florida ecosystem enjoys bipartisan support and deserves federal funding. Language matters. This language doesn’t help. Fiscal conservatives and liberal activists both want to curb the power of police unions in Suffolk County. Can they do it? Three scenarios for a more fertile American future. It’s not the old days. The G.O.P. is not your friend, Mr. President. The Rev. Rick Joyner has called on Christians to arm themselves for civil war. But his children would be on the other side. The decimation of the economy since the U.S. left the nuclear deal is crippling the people who have been working for reform. The pandemic shrank many social circles to a skeleton crew. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. A correction officer who had been taken hostage was rescued, officials said. The officer was injured and taken to a hospital. A man was fatally shot by an officer and a woman was killed by stray gunfire in separate shootings on Friday night, the police said. Eight other people were wounded. Officials said a driver fired multiple times into the passenger door of a couple’s car after they came close to a vehicle while merging into a lane in North Carolina. Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, is now showing old and new episodes of WWE Network wrestling. Some troubling segments in the network’s history disappeared in the transfer. The animated version of the comic book series cocreated by Robert Kirkman — with mayhem, destruction and gore — is now on Amazon Prime Video. William Heiser Jr. said his father had told him and his sister that their mother, Marie Heiser, had “just packed up her stuff and left.” More Recent Articles |
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