Politics

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg’s effort to return to the Democratic presidential campaign was abruptly aborted Friday as a crisis over a police killing called him back home to Indiana and threatened to overshadow recent momentum in his 2020 candidacy. Mr. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., withdrew from the South Carolina fish […]

WASHINGTON — Doug Evans, a white prosecutor in Mississippi, has spent decades trying to convict Curtis Flowers, a black man, of the 1996 murders of four people inside a furniture store. Over the course of six trials, Mr. Evans relied on a signature tactic: he worked diligently to keep black people off Mr. Flowers’s juries.

Even so, states like California and New York, which would rank as the world’s 5th- and 11th-largest economies if they were stand-alone countries, have the ability to sway large markets. For instance, their purchasing power can increase demand for things like electric buses or efficient heating pumps and potentially drive down prices. They can also

So far, this isn’t your typical oil crisis. Previous moments of tension in the Persian Gulf region, like Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, once caused a major kink in oil supplies, igniting spikes in prices. After all, the Gulf provides around a third of the world’s oil, and much of that crude passes through

You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “The opportunities for the next president are enormous. We can show worldwide leadership.” — Senator Elizabeth Warren, on whether it’s possible for the next president to help

When the EU agreed to delay the UK’s departure until the end of October, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, said “please don’t waste this time”. But of the seven months between 29 March (the original date for Brexit) and 31 October, nearly three have already passed. With the country in limbo, the Conservative

With the effects of climate change intensifying, California is under ever-greater siege from wildfires, often caused by the equipment that brings power to homes. One of the state’s utilities is already in bankruptcy largely because of the resulting liability claims. On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out a proposal for helping to meet such claims

What happened — or did not happen — last night? President Trump on Thursday approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for shooting down an unmanned American surveillance drone. The American operation was to be carried out before sunrise against Iranian military sites to avoid human casualties, which would have been around 9 p.m. Thursday

President Trump said Friday morning that the United States military had been “cocked and loaded” for a strike against Iran on Thursday night, but that he called it off with 10 minutes to spare when a general told him that 150 people would probably die in the attack. The president said in a series of

What happened — or did not happen — last night? President Trump on Thursday approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for shooting down an unmanned American surveillance drone. The American operation was to be carried out before sunrise against Iranian military sites to avoid human casualties, which would have been around 9 p.m. Thursday