Isabelle Taft

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mitch Smith |Isabelle Taft |Rachel Nostrant |Amy Graff

Rivers were rising rapidly across much of the Midwest and South on Saturday, prompting water rescues, evacuation orders and road closures as a relentless storm continued to dump rain. The increased flooding, which was happening from Texas to Ohio, came after days of heavy rains and tornadoes that killed at least 14 people, including a Missouri firefighter who died while responding to a water rescue call Friday and a 74-year-old found trapped in a submerged vehicle in Kentucky.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Mitch Smith |Isabelle Taft |Rachel Nostrant |Amy Graff

"Folks are going to have the potential for really all modes of severe weather, from tornadoes to damaging straight-line winds, up to large hail," said Scott Unger, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Nashville. At times, the hail could be as large as golf balls, he said, with severe weather potentially lasting well into Saturday night.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Isabelle Taft

Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it's a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil liberties. At the University of Pennsylvania last fall, someone splattered red paint on a statue honoring Benjamin Franklin, the school's founder. Within hours, campus workers washed it off. But the university was eager to find the culprit.

1 month ago | sanjuandailystar.com | Eileen Sullivan |Isabelle Taft

By Eileen Sullivan and Isabelle TaftErin Cagney was supposed to hear Monday that she could go back to doing the job she loved — as an archaeologist with the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. But the day came and went without a word. Cagney finally learned her fate Wednesday evening. She was being reinstated, but immediately being placed on administrative leave. “I desperately want to return to my job,” she said in an interview Wednesday.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Eileen Sullivan |Isabelle Taft

"In short, employees could be subjected to multiple changes in their employment status in a matter of weeks," Mark Engelbaum, the assistant secretary at Veterans Affairs for human resources, wrote in his declaration. Veterans Affairs fired about 1,900 probationary workers, he said. As of Monday, 1,683 were still terminated. That was in part because the agency has struggled to find personal email addresses for many of the fired workers, Mr. Engelbaum wrote.