We used to dream big. Now we’re increasingly thinking short term.

After a public outcry from people like Scott Willoughby, whose exorbitant electric bill is soon due, Gov. Greg Abbott said lawmakers should ensure Texans “do not get stuck with skyrocketing energy bills” caused by the storm.

The explosion in a garage killed Christopher Pekny and injured his brother on Sunday, officials said. Another brother described what happened as “the freakiest of freak accidents.”

An unapologetic proponent of “poetry as insurgent art,” he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights.

During lockdown, a 25-year marriage shakes and resettles.

A more generous loan formula for solo ventures is meant to get more very small businesses into the Paycheck Protection Program. But bigger applicants face a two-week pause.

The former president’s accountants will give New York prosecutors the financial records he has spent years trying to shield.

For all that they reveal, tax returns have limitations. Other records from the former president’s accountants may help give a fuller picture of his finances.

In Pawlet, Vt., where a landowner opened a tactical weapons training site, a zoning dispute has escalated into something more dangerous.

Small government is no match for a crisis born of the state’s twin addictions to market fixes and fossil fuels.

In a fiery speech, the denomination’s president decried “fissures and failures and fleshly idolatries.”

When the police arrived, they found the man with his hands bound behind his back by a belt and a bandanna “stuffed in his mouth” in Coolidge, Ariz.

As America’s top representative to the United Nations, Ms. Thomas-Greenfield has said she will set about restoring alliances.

The announcement came just a week after Mr. Perdue, a former senator and a Republican, said he had filed paperwork for a possible campaign, and just days after a meeting with Donald Trump.