Congress Is Ready to Attack a Common Enemy: Robocallers
Swamped by angry constituents demanding action and bedeviled themselves by obnoxious and fraudulent robocalls, Congress is springing to action.
A Teacher Shared Her Salary, and a Stranger Started a School Supplies Wish List
Last month, Ben Adam, a New Yorker who owns a real estate company, started the website Classroom Giving to help teachers in need of supplies.
The ‘Valley Girls’ of the Rio Grande
What is it like to come of age in the borderlands? Seven young women told us their stories.
California Today: The Raisin Industry? Not Such a Dry Subject
Friday: A Times journalist stumbles on a raisin intrigue; more on the college admissions scandal; and loving tomatoes in the time of climate change
Hunt for Operators of Illicit Marketplace Leads to Arrests in Germany
A team of international investigators arrested three people accused of running an online site for selling drugs and other illegal goods.
Your Friday Briefing
India, Facebook, Kentucky Derby: Here’s what you need to know.
Syrup Is as Canadian as a Maple Leaf. That Could Change With the Climate.
A growing body of research suggests that warming temperatures linked to climate change may significantly shrink the range where it’s possible to make maple syrup.
Amy Klobuchar Proposes $100 Billion for Addiction and Mental Health
Ms. Klobuchar said she was making addiction, including alcoholism and the opioid crisis, an early focus of her campaign in part because of her experience with her father’s alcoholism.
The Border Patrol’s 2 New Tent Camps Cost $37 Million. Take a Look Inside.
The agency’s latest attempt to handle an influx of migrants includes a 40,000 square-foot tent camp in the Rio Grande Valley.
On Politics: Pelosi Accuses Barr of Breaking the Law
After the attorney general failed to provide an unredacted version of the Mueller report, the Judiciary Committee threatened to hold him in contempt.
A Tourist Wanted a Better Look at an Active Volcano. Then He Fell in.
A man survived a 70-foot fall into Kilauea, a volcano that destroyed roughly 700 homes on the island of Hawaii when it erupted last year.
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