World & Nation
Former President Clinton was among those who paid their respects Thursday to the Texas representative at a memorial service in Houston.
Aug. 1, 2024
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday, has died.
July 20, 2024
Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing treatment.
June 3, 2024
Books
In ‘Alphabetical Diaries,’ Sheila Heti has once again tried something that feels impossible: collecting her personal diary entries for more than 10 years, re-ordering the sentences in alphabetical order, to build a different form of narrative.
Feb. 5, 2024
A longtime Democratic Texas lawmaker who has represented Houston in the Legislature for more than 50 years will lead the nation’s fourth-largest city after winning a mayoral runoff election
Dec. 10, 2023
California
Has this famously liberal city moved too far right to embrace an old-school progressive for mayor?
Jurors took little more than an hour on Tuesday to convict a man of murder in the stabbing death of UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer as she worked in a Hancock Park boutique furniture store.
Sept. 11, 2024
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who made history as the first Black woman to serve as speaker of the state Assembly, died Tuesday.
Aug. 1, 2023
Kelly Bishop reflects on the hit show ‘Gilmore Girls’ in her new memoir, ‘The Third Gilmore Girl.’
Sept. 17, 2024
Climate & Environment
‘I have hope because recently, local governments have been consulting Indigenous nations about hundred-year-old problems using thousand-year-old solutions.’
Sept. 15, 2024