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The conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to adopt new state legislative maps drawn by Republicans who control the Legislature, reversing its earlier decision that favored maps drawn by the state’s Democratic governor. The court acted after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its previous decision last month,…

Sarah Bolton maneuvers in the air for a living, using silks and hammocks to defy gravity at heights of up to 25 feet. The sensation of being in the air, she said, is often one of empowerment, an extension of childhood fantasies becoming adult realities. Bolton runs the aerial arts…

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The blurb for the book “Bad and Boujee: Toward a Trap Feminist Theology” says that it “engages with the overlap of Black experience, hip-hop music, ethics and feminism to focus on a subsection known as ‘trap feminism.’” But the book, written by Jennifer M. Buck, a white academic at a…

WASHINGTON — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has scrambled the global foreign policy landscape. But it has also upended President Biden’s domestic agenda back home, diverting the attention of the White House and contributing to rising prices that have become a top concern of Americans just months before congressional elections. Three…

Easy access also means easy interruption. At the beginning of the pandemic, Paige Van Otten, a stay-at-home mother in Seattle, loved that she could sneak in a quick Peloton workout while her toddler napped. “You think, ‘Oh, it’s so convenient, I can do it anytime,” she said. “But really, I…

The South Carolina Department of Corrections said last month that it had spent about $53,000 to renovate a death chamber at a prison on the outskirts of Columbia, installing bullet-resistant glass between the chamber and witness room. A spokeswoman for the prison agency said prisoners who chose the firing squad…

Vaccination and masking requirements, long gone in many parts of the country, have been falling away in New York City; on March 7, the city dropped rules requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining at restaurants, for example. Other settings, including movie theaters as well as some comedy, sports and…

An Olympic dressage coach accused of shooting his student was acquitted of attempted murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity in a case that stunned the elite dressage community. Michael Barisone, 57, an Olympic rider, said that he was defending himself when he shot Lauren Kanarek twice in…