The safety net helped keep Camille Saunders from falling, but not Charles Constance.
The difference? Ms. Saunders has a job, and Mr. Constance does not. And therein lies a tale of a profound shift in government support for low-income Americans at a time when stagnating wages and
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — This college town and its neighboring cities awoke Thursday to a day of grief as families prepared to lay to rest three Muslim students shot dead in their condominium complex in a crime that has stunned the community with its senselessness.
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WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, on Thursday delivered an unusually frank speech about the relationship between the police and black people, saying that officers who work in neighborhoods where blacks commit crimes at higher rates develop a cynicism that shades their attitudes about race.
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When Michelle Obama stepped onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in 2012 to talk about her husband and the coming election, the Internet went into an effective group swoon. Words like “spotlight stealing” and “dazzling” were used with abandon. Not about the first lady’s speech, but about her dress: a shimmering pink
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone sparked a protest last summer when he ignored pleas from public officials to cancel his plans to march in Washington, D.C., against same-sex marriage.
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Alabama resistance and federal law will collide Thursday in Mobile, when U.S. District Judge Callie Granade holds a hearing on whether to force state probate judges to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — On Sunday night, Blake Guinn, a 21-year-old city councilman in a deeply conservative suburb here, looked on Facebook and learned that, once again, Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the State Supreme Court had defied a federal court in the name of state sovereignty. Somehow, it did not seem entirely unexpected.
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The Supreme Court on Monday gave its strongest signal yet that the legal fight for nationwide gay marriage has been won even before the issue is argued in April.
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Like lightning striking a Southern oak, the conflict over gay marriage split the judges of this state Monday.
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President Obama will soon roll out one of the most ambitious and controversial programs of his presidency, an effort to grant a reprieve from deportation to millions of adult immigrants living in the country illegally.
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