Howard Witt

Dying S.C. school sees Obama stimulus plan as lifeline

August 21, 2019 at 9:50 p.m.

DILLON, S.C.—Ty'sheoma Bethea went to the public library in this struggling South Carolina town Tuesday night to write a letter to Congress about the economic stimulus bill. The 8th grader...

Hard truth, but little reconciliation, in Paris, Texas

June 18, 2018 at 1:25 a.m.

Ten days into a new American era, a hundred white and black citizens of this deeply-polarized east Texas town tried their hand at the kind of racial reconciliation heralded by...

Former President George W. Bush goes home to adoring crowds in Midland, Texas

August 21, 2019 at 9:50 p.m.

MIDLAND, Texas— At least they still love him in Midland. George W. Bush departed Washington on Tuesday as one of the least-respected and most vilified presidents in modern history. But...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama a second time in the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

Big moment but ‘small step’

June 18, 2018 at 1:27 a.m.

Sometimes, history comes full circle. On Tuesday, Hannah Jane Hurdle-Toomey, one of the last living children of an African-American slave, will be watching intently on TV as an African-American family...

Canada’s forests, once huge help on greenhouse gases, now contribute to climate change

August 21, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

VANCOUVER — As relentlessly bad as the news about global warming seems to be, with ice at the poles melting faster than scientists had predicted and world temperatures rising higher...

George W. Bush fans talk quietly of new legacy, library

August 21, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

DALLAS — His approval ratings are among the lowest for any president in modern U.S. history. He's presiding over the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. He acknowledges that...

Two charged with murder after black man dragged to death in troubled Paris, Texas

August 21, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

A grand jury in the racially-troubled northeast Texas town of Paris returned first-degree murder indictments Thursday against two white men accused in the September dragging death of a black man,...

Cheap oil, but at what cost?

August 18, 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

FT. MCMURRAY, Canada—From here in the far north of Canada through a web of transcontinental pipelines down to a network of refineries ringing the Chicago area, a new supply of...

Hate incidents in U.S. surge

August 21, 2019 at 9:48 p.m.

BOGALUSA, La.—Barely three weeks after Americans elected their first black president amid a wave of interracial good feeling, a spasm of noose hangings, racist graffiti, vandalism and death threats is...

Hate incidents in U.S. surge

August 22, 2021 at 2:57 a.m.

Barely three weeks after Americans elected their first black president amid a wave of interracial good feeling, a spasm of noose hangings, racist graffiti, vandalism and death threats is convulsing...

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