Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., as students returned following a shooting at the school in 2023.

A person votes early in the Virginia redistricting referendum at the Fairfax County Government Center in Fairfax, Va., earlier this month.

Olivia Troye served as a national security aide to former Vice President Mike Pence until the summer of 2020.

A leader at the University of Texas said the institution would be eager to work with the Trump administration. Other universities have been more circumspect.

Dr. Raven Baxter, a molecular biologist, was in escrow on a new home when she was told the seller didn’t want to hand over the keys to a Black person.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaking about reproductive rights last year in Tallahassee, Fla.

Derek Chauvin in court in Minneapolis in 2021.

Ohio has become a key front in the fight over access to abortion as voters are set to decide on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.

Days before a potential government shutdown, David Kirkley, the owner of Union Station Shoe Shine, was worried about the loss of walk-in business from federal workers heading to their jobs.