Alabama Inmate Is Sentenced to Life in Officer-Aided Escape
An Alabama inmate who escaped from jail and avoided capture for nearly two weeks last spring was sentenced on Thursday to spend the rest of...
Nashville School Shooter’s Parents to Hand Ownership of Writings to Victims
The parents of the assailant who killed six people at a Nashville Christian school in March will transfer legal ownership of the writings their child...
Supreme Court Gives the Voting Rights Act a Tenuous New Lease on Life
The Supreme Court’s surprising decision on Thursday to effectively reaffirm the remaining powers of the 1965 Voting Rights Act has halted, at least for the...
How Pat Robertson Created the Religious Right’s Model for Political Power
More than 30 years ago, a Baptist television star had a vision. Pat Robertson imagined a nation where conservative Christian values reigned in the halls...
21 Teenagers Injured in Walkway Collapse at Beach Park in Texas
Five teenagers were airlifted to a hospital and 16 others were also injured when part of an elevated walkway collapsed on Thursday at a park...
Texas Will Place a Floating Barrier Between U.S. and Mexico
The state of Texas will place a 1,000-foot floating barrier in the middle of the Rio Grande to prevent migrants from entering the United States,...
Worst of Wildfire Smoke Likely Over for Northeast as Air Quality Improves
The worst of the wildfire smoke is likely over for millions of people across the Northeast, after two days of orange-tinted skies and the smell...
Why the Charter School Movement Is Pushing Back on a Religious Charter
When Ember Reichgott Junge, a Democratic state senator from Minnesota, sponsored the country’s first charter school law in 1991, she envisioned a new kind of...
Anthony Rauda Sentenced to Life in Prison for Tristan Beaudette Murder
A man convicted of fatally shooting a scientist camping in a California state park with his two children in 2018 was sentenced to life in...
Wildfire Smoke Thickens Over Toronto: ‘Everything Is Dirty’
Sitting on a park bench in downtown Toronto, Maria Lee flicked through the photos on her phone to show how smoke had occluded the view...
Supreme Court Narrows the Reach of an Aggravated Identity Theft Law
The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a federal law that adds two years of prison to various felonies if identity theft is...
Man Tied to Natalee Holloway Disappearance Is Extradited to U.S.
Why it matters: He faces charges in the United States. Mr. van der Sloot was being extradited to face federal charges of wire fraud and...
Your Favorite Places to See Art in California
It’s starting to feel like summer. Whether you’re looking for a new family-friendly experience or a highly air-conditioned spot to escape the heat, today we’re...
Poor Air Quality Is Routine in Many Parts of the World
The hazy plume from the Canadian wildfires has given people in the northeastern United States a sense of what it is like in parts of...