The Upshot|What Texas Would Look Like Without ObamacareThe state leading the latest effort to overturn the health law used to have weaker coverage and more uninsured residents.ImageGetting help to sign up for health care coverage in Dallas in January 2017. To picture Texas without the Affordable Care Act requires no great leap of the imagination.Credit...Mark…
U.S.|What Would Efforts to Defund or Disband Police Departments Really Mean?Much is not yet certain, but here’s what is known so far about some efforts to defund or abolish police departments.Protesters walk in a Defund the Police march Saturday, in Minneapolis.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesJune 8, 2020Updated 2:12 p.m. ETMINNEAPOLIS — Across…
Former national security advisor Susan Rice Thursday said she "certainly would say yes" if former Vice President Joe Biden asked her to be his running mate in the presidential election.“I’m humbled and honored to be among the extremely accomplished women who are reportedly being considered in that regard,” Rice told PBS.Biden is listed on a…
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would beat President Donald Trump in the general election if it were held today, new polling has shown.An average of recent national surveys compiled by Real Clear Politics showed Biden, who served as vice president under former President Barack Obama, ahead of Trump by an average of nearly 6…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…