News

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his wife Casey, left, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, an adviser to President Donald Trump, at a Trump re-election campaign rally at the airport in Sanford, Fla., on Oct. 12, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) MIAMI — No one had to tell Ron DeSantis that his mock debates had bordered on disastrous. … Read more

Over two decades, Choi “Julie” Nguyen bounced from one low-paying job to the next: dishwasher, custodian, manicurist. As a single mom raising two daughters and a profoundly disabled son, Nguyen could never hold a job for long. Inevitably, the nurses Nguyen relied on to care for her son, Justin, would arrive late or not at … Read more

Esther Mafouta, a former student of Kristine Hostetter, in New York’s Riverside Park, April 7, 2021. (Elizabeth D. Herman/The New York Times) SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Word got around when Kristine Hostetter was spotted at a public mask-burning at the San Clemente pier, and when she appeared in a video sitting onstage as her husband … Read more

Supporters of then-President Donald Trump in Miami after the 2020 election. Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images As conservatives flee Blue State hostility and lockdowns, South Florida has become a GOP power base. The GOP social calendar orbits Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, while revelers party mask-free at swank house parties and penthouses. Greater Miami has … Read more

Reaction from around the world on the death of Prince Philip at age 99: UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres paid tribute to Prince Philip “for his active work for the betterment of humankind,” his spokesman said. The U.N. chief cited his support for the work of his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, for over … Read more

capitol riot Pro-Trump rioters attempt to enter the Capitol building in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, 2021. Credit – Victor J. Blue—Bloomberg/Getty Images As throngs of pro-Trump supporters rammed their way into the U.S. Capitol on the afternoon of Jan. 6, two men sped toward the complex in a pair of golf carts. Roberto Minuta, … Read more

“Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” by Susan Page. This story is adapted from “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” which will be published April 20 by Twelve Books. Author Susan Page, the Washington Bureau chief of USA TODAY, conducted 10 interviews with Pelosi for this biography and interviewed … Read more

A visit to The Little White House in Key West, Florida, may seem a little like a visit home. At least it might be if you grew up in the Midwest. And spent a lot of time at your grandparents’ house. Especially if your grandparents liked wall-to-wall gray wool carpeting, dark colonial-style furniture and the … Read more

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the U.S. “won the bet” on coronavirus vaccines by investing massively and moving fast with experimental treatments. He urged his compatriots to join a “national war effort” to administer and make vaccines. Macron visited a French factory Friday that started bottling and packaging Pfizer vaccines this week. He … Read more

Jonathan Dimbleby: ‘Like many of my generation, I was brought up to assume that it was the British, supported by the Americans, who beat Hitler’ – Getty Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 was the biggest, bloodiest and most barbarous military enterprise in the history of warfare. The purpose of Operation … Read more