Atlanta City Council Approves ‘Cop City’ Funding Despite Protests
The Atlanta City Council voted overwhelmingly early Tuesday to approve $31 million in funding for the construction of a sprawling $90 million police and fire...
Blinken to Talk to Saudis About Normalizing Ties With Israel
The News Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Monday that he planned to talk to Saudi leaders and other Gulf state officials this week...
Washington State Woman Is Arrested After Refusing TB Treatment
A Washington State woman who for over a year refused a court order to receive treatment for tuberculosis was taken into custody on Thursday, more...
Biden Invites Allies to Washington as Fighting Intensifies in Ukraine
The Latest President Biden hosted Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark at the White House on Monday to discuss security initiatives, including providing military support...
In a Year of Capitol Feuds, Oregon Has a Political Breakdown
For the past month, the Oregon Senate has started its daily proceedings by dispatching a search party. Unable to summon a quorum to vote on...
As California Accuses Florida of Shipping Migrants, More Arrive in Sacramento
A group of Latin American migrants aboard a chartered private plane landed at a small airport in Sacramento on Monday, the second such planeload in...
Robert Hanssen, F.B.I. Agent Exposed as Spy for Moscow, Dies at 79
Robert P. Hanssen, a former F.B.I. agent who spied for Moscow off and on for more than two decades during and after the Cold War...
Thomas Buergenthal, Holocaust Survivor and Judge, Dies at 89
Thomas Buergenthal, who said his survival in a Nazi death camp when he was 10 years old equipped him to become a human rights lawyer...
All 3 Missing in Iowa Building Collapse Found Dead, Officials Say
The Latest The police in Davenport, Iowa, said on Monday that they had found the bodies of all three men who had been missing since...
Supreme Court to Hear Dispute Over ‘Trump Too Small’ Slogan
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether a California lawyer may trademark the phrase “Trump too small,” a reference to a taunt from...
A Black Girl Won the 1908 Spelling Bee. Her Family Is Searching for Her Medal.
Before a crowd of thousands in Cleveland on June 29, 1908, Marie C. Bolden, 14, defied the odds and won what is believed to be...
The Jurors Sentenced a Missouri Man to Death. Now Some Are Not So Sure.
The murders were so brazen, so brutal, they stunned the people of Missouri. Just after midnight on June 22, 2000, Michael Tisius and Tracie Bulington...
Dev Shah Wins the 2023 Scripps Spelling Bee With ‘Psammophile’
After 14 rounds of words like “probouleutic” and “zwitterion” and “schistorrhachis,” Dev Shah, an eighth grader from Florida, had to wait through one more commercial...
‘Compassion Guy’ Popular in Davis, California Before Fatal Stabbing
It felt as if he had always been there, a steady sight on a busy corner in a college town. Hovering above 6 feet tall...