Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining immigration and criminal justice issues. She can be reached at mukta.joshi@nytimes.com. When I interviewed a senior congressman last week about […]
Three years after a miscarriage that caused a severe, nearly septic infection because a Tennessee hospital denied her an abortion, Katy Dulong was looking forward to telling her story in a trial that was scheduled to begin Monday. But this week, the state appealed to a higher court based on a new law passed by […]
The owners of the first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown now own the property rights to its second leg. Churchill Downs Inc. announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with 1/ST Maryland LLC to purchase the intellectual property rights for the Preakness Stakes and Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The $85 million deal includes “all […]