Texas Jury Awards $68,000 to Black Girl Who Said Classmates Wrapped Rope Around Her Neck
The girl’s family sued and their lawyer had asked for at least $5.3 million in damages. The school maintained that her injury was caused by an accident.
How Trump Stokes Fear in Midterm Ads
Recently released political ads reveal the Republican Party’s two-pronged election strategy: one message for skeptics and swing voters, and a very different one aimed at President Trump’s base.
Trump, Offering No Evidence, Cites Stacey Abrams’s ‘Past’ and Calls Her ‘Unqualified’
The decision of the president to invoke Ms. Abrams’s background so broadly was an escalation in his attacks on her bid to become the first black woman to be elected governor in the United States.
That Time Oprah Came to My House to Campaign
Kassie Jones was cleaning up from a Halloween party at home on Thursday when Ms. Winfrey dropped by to talk up Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia.
Fact Check of the Day: Trump’s Falsehood-Laden Speech on Immigration
At the White House, and in the lead-up to the midterm elections, President Trump issued a warning to the migrant caravan headed toward the United States. His speech was filled with inaccurate claims.
In South Texas, the First Signs of a Border Swathed in Military Might
In South Texas, Customs and Border Protection agents were already conducting military-style exercises as Army troops prepared to deploy along the border.
On Politics With Lisa Lerer: Near the Border, Beto Talks Immigration
In the On Politics newsletter: While the president stokes fears of an invasion, Beto O’Rourke pushes a message of positivity; plus new polls, and the latest from Opinion.
North Dakota Voter ID Law Stands After Last-Ditch Lawsuit
Native American tribes and advocacy groups are now preparing for the possibility of fighting for provisional ballots to be counted after Election Day.
It’s Not Just Pre-Existing Conditions. Voters Weigh Many Health Issues on State Ballots
Referendums include issues from Medicaid expansion to abortion, dialysis costs to indoor vaping, and much more.
Obama Is Helping Democrats Punch Back at Trump: Will it Work?
Former President Barack Obama has leveled many attacks on President Trump heading into the 2018 midterm elections. These sharp rebukes, though, are a departure from how past leaders used their post-presidential campaign stops.
E: How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost
“Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow,” an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, traces the gains, and reversals, of the post-Civil War struggle over racial equality.
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