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Prosecutors in the office of the special counsel Jack Smith are pressing forward with their investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, asking at least one...

Rosa Jimenez, a Texas babysitter who had been sentenced to 99 years in prison after being convicted of murder in the 2003 death of a toddler, was exonerated on Monday after years...

Officials in Ohio were counting votes Tuesday evening on a referendum with an ostensibly straightforward question: Should it be harder to amend the State Constitution?But the results in Tuesday’s election could have...

In the government’s emergency application, Ms. Prelogar asked the justices to consider an analogy.“Every speaker of English would recognize that a tax on sales of ‘bookshelves’ applies to Ikea when it sells...

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...