New York Times

Given the ubiquity of neon-colored safety jackets, criminals are using them to carry out crimes in plain sight.

Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation wars, will head the American Constitution Society at a time of legal turmoil.

Dozens of federal officers descended on the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, detaining several people and drawing protests.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, received a five-year sentence after being convicted in a campaign finance scandal.

Kyle Kunkler fought for a restricted weed killer that can harm plants and wildlife when it drifts to nearby land. He’s now at the E.P.A., which wants to allow its use.

“Monuments,” a group exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, places contemporary art face to face with statuary removed in the last decade.

Their communities devastated from last weekend’s storm, many are in shelters in Anchorage and facing life in a completely different world.

Ventfort Hall, an 1893 mansion built for J.P. Morgan’s sister, was in disrepair. The living and the dead teamed up to save it.

Fifteen miles west of Manhattan, in Paterson, N.J., a community is directly, and often painfully, connected to a conflict half a world away.

A parade of scandals tarnished the prince’s reputation, long before he gave up using his title as Duke of York on Friday.