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Airports across the Eastern United States grounded numerous flights because of the threat of severe weather on Monday afternoon, leading to thousands of flight delays and cancellations that extended into the evening.The...

A “complicated and active” storm system swept across the Eastern United States on Monday evening, delivering widespread thunderstorms that killed at least two people, grounded thousands of flights and left more than...

BackgroundOn May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officers arrested Mr. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, after a store employee told the police that he had bought cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Mr....

For more than a century, Ohio voters have been able to amend the State Constitution with a simple majority vote.That could end on Tuesday, because the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature has called for...

Three people were killed when a helicopter that was deployed to fight a wildfire in Southern California collided with another and crashed on Sunday evening, officials said.The three men who were killed...

One of the most prolific thieves in the South Lake Tahoe, Calif., area was “safely immobilized” by tranquilizer dart and apprehended Friday morning, according to state officials: a 400-pound black bear that...

In recent weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris has dashed off to Florida on short notice. She sparred with the state’s conservative governor, Ron DeSantis, over how to teach slavery in schools. And...

On the night that the Pulse nightclub in Orlando was attacked by a gunman with a high-capacity rifle, Jorshua Hernández spent three hours bleeding in a bathroom stall, unable to find his...

Jack Schlossberg had enough. The only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, Mr. Schlossberg had been watching the presidential campaign of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with increasing dismay.To Mr. Schlossberg,...

A school bus carrying about 30 campers rolled over on a winding highway north of Boise, Idaho, on Friday, leaving seven of the passengers critically injured, according to the police.State troopers and...