Politics

The Biden administration is dispatching Wally Adeyemo, the deputy Treasury secretary, to Nigeria next week as it seeks to deepen economic ties with Africa and counter China’s influence on the continent.The visit comes...

As reporters, we go where the news is.That means we’re often showing up in cities and towns after the unimaginable has happened. Writing about places on their very worst days, after a shooting,...

You may remember the explosive recording of Los Angeles City Council members that was leaked last year. The profanity-laced audio, in which L.A. leaders can be heard mocking people in racist terms, stunned...

The fugitive who escaped Chester County Prison and has eluded authorities for a week and a half was seen on Saturday night in a part of the county miles from the area where...

Two Kentucky men who spent 22 years in jail for an unsolved 1992 murder they did not commit agreed this week to settle a civil rights case against Louisville for $20.5 million.In 2018,...

Hurricane Lee has grabbed the attention of forecasters and social media this week as the rapidly intensifying storm moves west across the open waters of the Atlantic.It is easy to look at a...

The notorious Tenderloin. It’s a symbol of so many problems afflicting San Francisco. Homelessness, drug overdoses, retail theft, general filth.But I have to admit, it’s one of my favorite neighborhoods in the city.The...

Five years ago in San Francisco, a federal appeals court upended homeless policy in California and across the West. In a 2018 ruling against the city of Boise, Idaho, the Court of Appeals...

Thousands of attendees of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert were stranded over the weekend after heavy rain on Friday night led officials to close the road that leads in and...

Clearing skies over northwestern Nevada on Monday may permit the mass exodus of thousands of people from the Burning Man festival, where they have been stranded for days after torrential rain swept the...