On Saturday, the capsule will have no crew, but it sets up a near future with astronauts traveling to orbit from the United States again.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/science/spacex-crew-dragon-launch.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The family of Otto Warmbier spoke out after President Trump’s comments, saying that North Korea’s ‘evil regime’ was responsible for the death of their son.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/trump-otto-warmbier-north-korea.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

As their conservative brethren celebrate, churches like Foundry United Methodist in Washington are faced with difficult decisions on whether to remain in their denomination.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/united-methodist-church-gay-clergy-ban.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The Justice Department said it had found insufficient evidence to prove that Betty Shelby had willfully used unreasonable force against Terence Crutcher.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/betty-shelby-terence-crutcher-tulsa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Facing criticism for making regional theaters cancel productions of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Scott Rudin said he would let them go on, using the new Aaron Sorkin script.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/theater/scott-rudin-mockingbird-broadway.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The police and Major League Baseball said they were each looking into the episode, which happened on Friday and parts of which were captured on video.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/sports/larry-baer-wife-video.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The former Trump campaign chairman will be sentenced next week in one of the two cases against him. Sentencing guidelines put the punishment at 19 to 24 years.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/politics/paul-manafort-sentencing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

A suspect was arrested, accused of punching a conservative activist in the face. The assault revived a debate over tolerance of conservative views on college campuses.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/berkeley-assault-campus-free-speech.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

She spoke of “allegiance to a foreign country,” a phrase that her critics said invoked an anti-Semitic trope. Her spokesman called that an “inaccurate reading.”

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/politics/ilhan-omar-israel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

At the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she was an organizer in the civil rights struggle, in one case escorting a brave 6-year-old to school.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/obituaries/jean-fairfax-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss