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When a majority of House Republicans opposed a successful push by right-wing rebels to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week, many warned that a leaderless House would be paralyzed to respond to...

The devastating surprise attack by Hamas on Saturday represented an equally stunning intelligence failure by Israel that involved undetected warnings, overwhelmed missile defenses and a slow response by apparently unprepared military forces,...

Humberto Marchand turned on his phone camera and began recording inside the airport in May because he could not believe what he was hearing.The subsequent video was posted on social media and...

In the dense, damp forests northeast of Houston, a pair of brothers hit on a viable real estate business model: Offer plots of cheap land and unconventional loans for people who wanted...

For months, the Biden administration has been pursuing an ambitious diplomatic project to design a new Middle East for a new era. But the old Middle East, it turns out, still has...

Why It Matters: The bill reflects divisions in the state’s South Asian community and its influence as a growing demographic.The bill, known as Senate Bill 403, had driven intense debate — and...

For 128 years, he has been known only as Stoneman Willie, a figure lying in an open coffin in a Reading, Pa., funeral home, leathery and as hardened as his nickname suggests.Little...

When a judge disqualified a prisoner last month from being part of the conspiracy case in the Sept. 11 attacks, the ruling was based on one finding: a mental health board’s diagnosis...

A judge ruled on Friday that the man charged with fatally shooting 10 people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo., in 2021 is mentally competent to stand trial, court records show, a...

A foul smell led investigators to find at least 115 decaying bodies at a funeral home in rural Colorado that had promised “green” burials, officials said on Friday, describing the scene as...