Flint Holds a Glittering Prom, Far From Flint
For students at Flint Northwestern High School, this year’s prom was a chance to set aside anxieties about Flint’s three-year-old water crisis, its poverty and its gun violence.
A Texas morgue holds 212 bodies of people who died trying to cross the border.CreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times
A Path to America, Marked by More and More Bodies
Over 16 years, the Border Patrol documented 6,023 deaths in the four states bordering Mexico, more than from the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina combined.
A truck stop at Effingham, Ill.CreditGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times
Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers about why they do it.
Gwen Beatty in James Sutter’s classroom at Wellston High School in Ohio, where she and Mr. Sutter butted heads over the issue of human-caused climate change.CreditMaddie McGarvey for The New York Times
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
A new teacher’s efforts to educate teenagers in Ohio coal country ran up against a cultural resistance to evidence of the human role in global warming.
On a night stand, IDs, personal items and a photograph of the couple.CreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York Times
He Became a Hate Crime Victim. She Became a Widow.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla’s death in an anti-immigrant attack at a Kansas bar made headlines the world over. Now his wife, Sunayana Dumala, tells her story.
Fidel Delgado is led away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.CreditMelissa Lyttle for The New York Times
A Broader Sweep
A day in the field with immigration enforcers in California, a state hostile to President Trump’s efforts to step up deportations.
Hisham Yasin in the office of his used-car business.CreditEthan Tate for The New York Times
At an Arkansas Mosque, a Vandal Spreads Hate and Finds Mercy
Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas.
A 41st Rescue Squadron team prepared to hoist down from a helicopter during a search and rescue mission.CreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times
Harvey in Pictures
In the week that followed Hurricane Harvey’s landfall, photographers on the ground in Texas and Louisiana documented the staggering aftermath.
Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, where Wilma Jean Ellis, after being rescued twice, arrived in a body bag.CreditBryan Thomas for The New York Times
Saved From Harvey’s Floodwaters, Twice. So How Did She End Up Dead?
A Houston great-grandmother was put on a rescue boat. That much is known. But how she got off, was rescued a second time and then ended up in the morgue is one of Hurricane Harvey’s mysteries.
Anita-Maria Quillen, chief executive of Diversified Engineering and Plastics, in Jackson, Mich. CreditSam Hodgson for The New York Times
Eager to Create Blue-Collar Jobs, a Small Business Struggles
A Michigan auto parts company has transformed itself and made money. But its chief finds herself caught between demands to lower costs and lift wages.
San Juan, P.R., a week after Hurricane Maria. CreditVictor J. Blue for The New York Times
One Day in the Life of Battered Puerto Rico
A team of New York Times reporters and photographers spent 24 hours with people trying to survive the catastrophe that Hurricane Maria left behind in Puerto Rico.
Dr. Thomas Andrew, the chief medical examiner of New Hampshire, retired last month. Bodies from overdose deaths have overwhelmed medical examiners across the country.CreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times
As Overdose Deaths Pile Up, a Medical Examiner Quits the Morgue
“It has completely overwhelmed us,” Dr. Thomas A. Andrew said of the opioid crisis. His new ambition: minister to the living about the dangers of drugs.
Ghaith and Tiffany Sahib, the owners of DarSalam, an Iraqi restaurant in Portland, Ore.CreditAmanda Lucier for The New York Times
A Marine Attacked an Iraqi Restaurant. But Was It a Hate Crime or PTSD?
After a Marine attacked an Iraqi restaurant in Portland, Ore., his family said he was provoked by trauma, not hate, and that he needed help, not jail time.
Shannon Mulcahy outside her home in Whitestown, Ind.CreditPhotographs by Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico.
Workers like Shannon Mulcahy took pride in their jobs at the Rexnord factory in Indianapolis. The bearings they made were top-notch. In the end, it didn’t matter.
A memorial to the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. Much attention has gone to those killed, but injured survivors face a special burden.CreditJohn Locher/Associated Press
‘You’re a Quadriplegic’: A Las Vegas Victim Faces a Hard Reality
Kim Gervais and two friends went to hear country music. Then the gunfire began. She was gravely injured, one of her friends died and one survived.
“You’re going to see a lot of folks out here running from something,” said a man who identified himself only as Sunny. CreditMike Belleme for The New York Times
Overnight in Walmart Parking Lots: Silence, Solace and Refuge
Walmart’s practice of letting people populate many of its parking lots has made the retail giant’s stores a reliable destination and a place where an informal culture emerges before and after dark.
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