Obama’s Tangled History With Supreme Court Sets Stage for Nominee Fight

WASHINGTON — The first time President Obama sat down to pick a new Supreme Court justice, surprised aides discovered that he had gone beyond the briefing memos to read the leading candidate’s past judicial rulings. The president, a onetime constitutional law teacher, was in his element, a “legal nerd,” as one aide called him, putting theory into practice.

But if nothing else, the last seven years have made clear to Mr. Obama that the Supreme Court is anything but a nerdy, academic exercise. His currentstandoff with the Senate over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia culminates a profoundly consequential struggle over not just the law, but power, politics and his legacy.

Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump

The scenario Karl Rove outlined was bleak.

Addressing a luncheon of Republican governors and donors in Washington on Feb. 19, he warned that Donald J. Trump’s increasingly likely nomination would be catastrophic, dooming the party in November. But Mr. Rove, the master strategist of George W. Bush’s campaigns, insisted it was not too late for them to stop Mr. Trump, according to three people present.

At a meeting of Republican governors the next morning, Paul R. LePage of Maine called for action. Seated at a long boardroom table at the Willard Hotel, he erupted in frustration over the state of the 2016 race, saying Mr. Trump’s nomination would deeply wound the Republican Party. Mr. LePage urged the governors to draft an open letter “to the people,” disavowing Mr. Trump and his divisive brand of politics.

Legionnaires’ Outbreak in Flint Was Met With Silence

FLINT, Mich. — It was the Fourth of July, a warm summer night in 2014, but Tim Monahan was shivering in a thick blanket as he watched fireworks from his front yard here. By the next afternoon his temperature had shot to 104.6, and doctors at the hospital he had checked into puzzled over what was wrong.

Two days later, they had an answer:Legionnaires’ disease, a virulent form of pneumonia caused by a type of bacteria that can multiply in water systems. Mr. Monahan, now 58, was given antibiotics and eventually recovered, but his case turned out to be at the leading edge of a Legionnaires’ outbreak that sickened at least 87 people in the Flint region, killing nine of them, from June 2014 through October 2015.

UN AMOR EN CADA CIUDAD

UN AMOR EN CADA CIUDAD

Así es mi historia. Tengo veinte años y un hijo de un año y seis meses de soltera. Sufrí mucho con el padre de mi hijo ya que nuestra relación siempre fue muy violenta. Desde que terminamos y él rehízo su vida hace cinco meses con otra persona, yo me alejé del amor para dedicarme a trabajar en el negocio de mi familia y criar a mi hijo, sinceramente me olvidé de ser mujer.

Hace aproximadamente un mes, estaba sola como todas las mañanas trabajando y entró un hombre vestido de uniforme, un policía. Me saludó muy amablemente y me preguntó por mi mamá, ya que él recordaba que ella estaba por las mañanas. Entre una cosa y la otra hablamos durante cuarenta minutos aproximadamente y me comentó que me dejaría su número telefónico por cualquier urgencia, ya que era el consigna asignado para esa cuadra, para cualquier urgencia o algo más.