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Good morning. After Californians poured into the streets of cities across the state to protest police brutality and racism last summer, elected leaders pledged to implement reforms. Los Angeles’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, pledged to move $250 million from city departments — including a $150 million cut from the Police Department …

San Francisco | $1.85 Million An early 20th-century castle-like house with three bedrooms and one bathroom, on a 3,049-square-foot lot This house is a block southwest of Corona Heights Park and four blocks from Castro Street. It was owned for decades by an antiques dealer and is ornamented inside and …

During the pandemic, suicidal thinking is up. And families find that hospitals can’t handle adolescents in crisis.

“America is back,” President Biden has declared in every major foreign policy speech he has given since taking office. He means to restore what he sees as the essence of global leadership — the United States joining with allies to “fight for our shared values” — that his predecessor defiled. …

This month’s off-the-grid U.S. streaming service recommendations include several titles that are a bit wilder than in months past, as if the streamers recognize that we’re clawing at the walls here, and wish to offer appropriate aural and visual accompaniment. But not to worry — we also have period dramas, …

Now, the Biden administration is explicitly reversing that position. On Feb. 12, officials at Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that handles citizenship, said employees should not use the word “alien” in “outreach efforts, internal documents and in overall communication with stakeholders, partners and the general public.” The move, the …

Few see Judge Merrick Garland, President Biden’s pick for attorney general, as a progressive who will reform the criminal legal system. But the Biden administration recently acknowledged that mass incarceration does not make us safer. And as the nation’s chief federal prosecutor, if confirmed, Judge Garland will have the power …

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Growing up in segregated Nashville in the 1950s, Elizabeth R. Duff once tried to sit at the front of a public city bus, where a sign warned that seats were …

Lines are further blurred by the fact that in fashion, professional relationships are often nurtured in nonprofessional settings: on a beach for a photo shoot, where everyone is staying at the same resort; over dinner at Caviar Kaspia in Paris, to celebrate a show. It was general practice, in glossy …

PHILADELPHIA — As Mildred Perry’s coffin was lowered into the snow-covered ground at Greenmount Cemetery on Tuesday, her family sang “I’ll Fly Away,” a traditional selection to close a funeral service. Ms. Perry, 94, thought she had beaten the coronavirus after she contracted it last spring. But eight months later, …