Trial Opens for Oklahoma Officer Charged in Fatal Shooting of Black Driver
The prosecutor says Betty Jo Shelby, who is charged with manslaughter, panicked when she shot Terence Crutcher. Her lawyer says he could have been reaching for a gun.
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CreditErika P. Rodriguez for The New York Times Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis Claims Another Casualty: Its Schools
The secretary of education in Puerto Rico has pushed for closings and consolidations to save money. Teachers fear the cuts will cost them their jobs.
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CreditErik Jacobs for The New York Times A Public Overdose. An Antidote at Hand. Would Passers-By Use It?
As Cambridge, Mass., begins to consider installing lockboxes containing the nasal spray Narcan, officials there tested how willing people would be to help a stranger needing it.
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CreditErik Jacobs for The New York Times Would You Administer Narcan? Readers Respond
Readers explain why they would or would not administer an opioid antidote to an overdosing stranger.
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CreditMatt Roth for The New York Times Sanctuary Bills in Maryland Faced a Surprise Foe: Legal Immigrants
Maryland seemed to be a natural sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. But some vocal critics said the proposals devalued their own struggles to gain citizenship.
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CreditDamon Casarez for The New York Times How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality
An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices — and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.
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CreditOriana Koren for The New York Times California Today: Los Angeles’s Crackling Restaurants
Wednesday: The Los Angeles dining scene is on the move, speculation about Senator Kamala Harris’s ambitions, and a trip to the Tule Lake internment camp.
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CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times Sally Yates Tells Senators She Warned Trump About Michael Flynn
Ms. Yates, the former acting attorney general, gave a dramatic account of an unfolding crisis in the early days of President Trump’s White House.
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CreditAmerican Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, via Facebook Live Reporter Arrested in West Virginia After Persistently Asking Questions of Tom Price
The reporter tried to get Mr. Price, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to answer a question about the new health care legislation.
