Rachel Nostrant

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.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Rachel Nostrant |Reyes Mata III

Texas prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty against the gunman who killed 23 people in a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart six years ago, the local district attorney announced on Tuesday. The gunman, a self-described white nationalist, had previously been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms after pleading guilty to federal hate crimes in the attack, one of the deadliest on Latinos in U.S. history. At the time, federal prosecutors also said they would not seek the death penalty.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Michael Bender |Rachel Nostrant

1 hour agoI was skeptical that Wix AI would be able to create a functional website in just 3 hours, but I was wrong. If you need to build a website, chances are you'd like to do it in 3 hours or less. I've been needing to make a site for my company, but I've been overwhelmed by the surplus of creative talent, …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Bender |Rachel Nostrant

Restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic led to their own genre of discrimination complaints as schools closed, struggled to carry out online learning and then were slow to reopen. Department officials said they still intend to pursue civil rights complaints and have discussed relying more on mediations as a way to quicken the pace of investigations, as well as other available legal tools to rapidly resolve cases. The office had already moved to align with Mr. Trump's priorities.