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As a young congressional aide, David Price witnessed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from the Senate gallery. He remembers the dramatic moment when Senator Clair Engle of California, dying of a brain tumor and left unable to speak, was wheeled in to cast a decisive vote….

Auto experts say the electric F-150, known as the Lightning, must be a success if Ford is to thrive in the age of electric vehicles. Introducing this truck now is equivalent to “betting the company,” said William C. Ford Jr., the company’s executive chairman, who is a great-grandson of Henry…

In the first year of the pandemic, at least four people in Michigan were infected with a version of the coronavirus observed mostly in mink, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed on Monday. The cluster, which previously included just three cases, represents the first known instance of possible…

So Donald Trump has endorsed J.D. Vance in the race for Ohio’s Republican Senate nomination. Will Trump’s nod tip the balance? I have no idea, and frankly I don’t care. Ohio’s G.O.P. primary has, after all, been a race to the bottom, with candidates seemingly competing to see who can…

(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday. 1. Russia has begun its offensive in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said. “Now we can state that the Russian forces have started the battle for the Donbas that they…

“It’s part of what makes Disney so special,” said Bri Petrarca, who had brought her sons, Grayson, 5, and Asher, 2, to meet characters on Monday. She was wearing a pink T-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Here for the hugs.” About 50 people were waiting at that moment to hug…

WASHINGTON — The last time the White House held an Easter Egg Roll, the president ditched the Easter bunny and briefed a child on his border wall. Phrases like “masking ordinance” and “rapid testing” were not yet part of the national lexicon. A Corona was just a beer. The world…

“We are on a full, full freight train to decertify,” Mr. Epshteyn said on the program in January. “That’s what we’re going to get. Everyone knows. Everyone knows this election was stolen.” Last fall, 186 state legislators from 39 states joined a letter written by Wendy Rogers, a Republican state…

Parts of Europe have a smarter way to deal with partial and varying disability levels, said the third author, Philippa Dunne, director of outreach at Hudsonia, a nonprofit ecological research firm. The report spotlights the Netherlands and Sweden. The Netherlands had been considered to have one of the worst disability…

Everything that matters much more — the delivery driver’s poverty and his undocumented status — gets obscured by a broad telling of history and a few handpicked complaints about how white people ask, “Where are you from?” These instances of identity slippage remind me of a style of sleight-of-hand where…