Jacob’s Pillow Cancels Remainder of Festival After Death at Center

A production manager died at the dance center last week in what the district attorney’s office in Berkshire County, Mass., described as a workplace accident.

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Texas Redistricting: Why Republicans and Democrats Are Fighting

Here is why Democrats in the Texas House left the state, why Republicans in the Legislature want to redraw political maps and why other states are involved.

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In Massachusetts, a Work Stoppage Forces Judges to Dismiss Criminal Cases

Seeking higher pay, lawyers for indigent defendants won’t take new clients. As a result, judges must dismiss cases against people accused of crimes who lack lawyers.

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States Sue Trump Administration Over Efforts to Get Food Stamp Data

The lawsuit argues that the federal government’s demand was an attempt to obtain sensitive personal information for use outside the food stamp program.

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Harvard’s Leader, Penny Pritzker, Faces Intense Scrutiny in Trump Fight

As Harvard and the government negotiate to end a conflict with billions of dollars on the line, some ask whether Penny Pritzker, the head of the school’s governing board, should step down.

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American Airlines Flight Attendant Who Filmed Minors in Lavatory Is Sentenced to 18.5 Years

The former flight attendant, Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, N.C., secretly filmed girls using the restroom on American Airlines flights in 2023, prosecutors said.

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Oxygen Machine Played Role in Fire That Killed 10 in Massachusetts, Officials Say

The fire began in a resident’s room in an assisted living facility in Fall River, where investigators found an oxygen machine and “smoking materials.”

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20 States Sue Trump Administration Over Ending FEMA Funding for Disaster Mitigation

FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” The program saved taxpayers more than $150 billion over 20 years, the plaintiffs said.

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Several Killed in Fire at Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility

The fire broke out on Sunday in the city of Fall River, a state official said. The exact number of victims was unclear.

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Trial Over Free Speech on Campus, and Trump’s Student Crackdown, Begins

The case challenges the Trump administration’s targeting of noncitizen student activists for arrest and deportation on First Amendment grounds.

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