A Toys "R" Us store in Totowa, N.J. The retailer replaced 67 employees with workers in India. The Indian workers were trained by the American workers Toys "R" Us eventually laid off.
A federal program intended to bring in workers with special skills is being used by some American companies to hire and train other foreign workers.
A City Council meeting in Columbus, Ind., on Sept. 15. Members of the Council, all Republicans, unanimously approved changing local law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since the legislature passed what proponents call a religious freedom law, efforts to enact local anti-discrimination measures have spread across the state.
A lawyer for Sheriff Stanley Glanz said that he would step down, six months after a volunteer deputy accidentally killed an unarmed man during an arrest.
Pads of toxic blue-green algae have speckled nearly two thirds of the river in the last five weeks, experts say, putting water utilities on alert.
The State Department is releasing the emails in batches, subject to a court order after revelations that Mrs. Clinton had used a private email system while she was the secretary of state.
The author, whose real name is Daniel Handler, and his wife, Lisa Brown, an author and illustrator, announced the donation on Twitter.
The commission is expected to vote on new limits on rates and fees as it seeks to regulate the $1.2 billion phone industry serving prisons and jails.
As the House prepared to choose new leaders, Mr. McCarthy tied the Republican-led Benghazi inquiry to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s dropping poll numbers.
Gov. Mary Fallin intervened in the case of Mr. Glossip, 52, convicted in a 1997 murder, issuing a stay to address questions about the state’s execution protocols.
The temporary bill approved by lawmakers will keep the government running through Dec. 11, but does nothing to avoid even bigger battles ahead.
Where the Category 1 hurricane, with 80 m.p.h. winds, is headed will be clearer in the next 72 hours but it could move north toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Ms. Shalala, 74, fell ill after leaving the closing events around the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
Mrs. Fiorina is among the presidential candidates trying to stay within federal rules, maneuvering around the gray areas and the loopholes while keeping campaign plans out in the open.
The defense secretary’s orders in 2009 for quicker medevac and improved trauma care saved hundreds in Afghanistan, a report said, and may hold lessons for the military today.
With President Obama set to release new ozone rules, environmentalists are pushing for strict limits, while industry groups are lobbying for weaker, less costly ones.
The Vatican confirmed that the pope met with Ms. Davis, who defied a court order on same-sex marriage, but would not elaborate.
TransCanada Inc. said it would abandon its efforts to invoke eminent domain through the courts in Nebraska and will reapply for approval through the state’s Public Service Commission.
A bystander took a shaky video as an African-American man in a wheelchair was fatally shot last week by officers in Wilmington.
Senator Mitch McConnell and Speaker John A. Boehner have developed a bond that has not always existed between House and Senate leaders of the same party.
Speaking in Pennsylvania, Mr. Bush also assailed President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for opposing the Keystone XL pipeline.
Officer William G. Porter, who is charged with manslaughter and assault, will go on trial starting Nov. 30, a judge in Baltimore ruled.
All 15 Republican presidential candidates have paid the $40,000 required to run in the South Carolina Republican primary next year, the first ballot-access test in the G.O.P. race.
Ben Carson describes how he would get away from the police as a child, then says he was kidding.
The next Republican presidential debate will have stricter polling criteria for candidates to make the main debate stage, potentially winnowing the field, CNBC said Wednesday.
For Lena Dunham and other stars on social media, it can be difficult to resist the platform’s call.
Jeb Bush waded into the politics of professional football this week and was hit by Native American groups for saying that the Washington Redskins was not an offensive team name.
Alluding to his “personal experience” grappling with addiction in his family, Jeb Bush on Wednesday held forth at a round-table discussion on substance abuse in New Hampshire, a state devastated by heroin’s toll.
The Suffolk University/USA Today poll, a national survey, showed Donald J. Trump ahead of Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina in the Republican race, though the billionaire businessman’s favorability rating is low.
Former President George W. Bush took a small step into a more public role in his younger brother Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign by sending out an email encouraging donors to contribute.
Donald J. Trump’s latest target is Senator Marco Rubio, who has recently risen in the polls. Mr. Trump said Mr. Rubio is bad with money and is controlled by rich donors.
A policy hint by Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an effort to reach out to unions, has still not slowed the groups’ flirtations with other candidates.
Nineteen interviews with Edward M. Kennedy, along with 170 more with colleagues, aides and others about his 46-year career, were released on Wednesday.
In oral history interviews released Wednesday, Senator Edward M. Kennedy talked about how he got subcommittee assignments early in 1963.
Stefan Larsson is credited with vastly expanding H&M;’s cheap chic fashion business and transforming Old Navy into a symbol of affordable fast fashion.
A year-old effort by the Obama administration is applying academic research on human behavior to the business of running the government.
It was Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s turn to chuckle when a foreign counterpart blurted out what everyone was thinking.
Puerto Rican officials seeking a way out of more than $72 billion of debt were told by a Senate panel the numbers they were using to make their case were too sketchy to persuade lawmakers to help.
The designer will turn over management of his fashion empire to Stefan Larsson, president of Old Navy, but will stay active in the company in new roles.
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, opened a Twitter account with a joke pointing to his disclosures about the agency.
Many people assume school shootings have been happening ever more frequently, but the reality is not simple, and evidence can be murky.
How dry conditions, dead trees and a lengthy drought set the stage for one of the worst fire seasons on record.
Far more say the church is in touch with the needs of Catholics today than at the end of the papacy of his predecessor.
Attention shifted away from Detroit after the bankruptcy. But for five high school students, life has moved on, sometimes in unexpected ways, as the city struggles to get back on its feet.
A collection of videos that have led to nationwide protests, federal investigations and changes in policy and attitudes on race.
In the last year, videos of incidents between white police officers and minorities have prompted changes in procedures. Here is a look at those videos, which include graphic scenes of violence.
Every year, natural disasters cost the United States billions in insured losses. In 2014, the figure reached $25 billion. Which disasters are the most common, and what do they cost?
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there.
More than a quarter of schools in California have measles-immunization rates for kindergarteners that are below the standard the C.D.C. says is needed to maintain so-called herd immunity.
Freddie Gray lived in Sandtown-Winchester, a crime-ridden Baltimore neighborhood that has been depressed for decades.
In many states, laws requiring evidence that force was used in a rape would have made it difficult for the accuser to bring charges at all.
How a rich entrepreneur persuaded the city to let him create his own high-tech police force.
Michael Brown was not only a victim of police brutality; he and millions of other black children endured another scourge almost as harmful.
Nearly 80 percent of black voters polled by The Times believe the policies were designed to make it harder for them to vote.
An appeals court panel found that N.C.A.A. rules violated antitrust law but struck down a federal judge’s solution that would have paid athletes $5,000 a year.
Turbulence in a financial market has caused speculation that college students will see federal loans dry up.
Two former city courts, with their jail cells intact, are being used for office space and a tutoring center at the school’s campus in the Flatiron district of Manhattan.
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How some small-scale farmers in the Central Valley try to sustain their businesses in the face of cultural challenges and little government support.
The data is clear: Most terrorists don’t land on American soil from the ranks of refugees but are people born here and recruited.
