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Three people were killed and eight others were injured in Fort Worth late Monday night when several men started firing indiscriminately into a crowd, the police said.The shooting took place just before...

Inside the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, a towering luxury hotel with a rooftop pool and soaring views of the city, Jason Hernandez said on Monday that things seemed normal. Housekeepers had cleaned...

Police found a fifth victim in a southwest Philadelphia shooting, hours after a heavily armed gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on Monday evening, the police said.The fifth victim was found...

It’s the final Fourth of July before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary — still more than six months away, yes. But all the same, the Republicans vying for their party’s...

In videos from a block party on Saturday night, hundreds of teenagers and young adults are seen dancing in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Baltimore and singing along to the lyrics of local...

A 4.6-magnitude earthquake rumbled through an area northeast of Anchorage on Monday morning, the United States Geological Survey said.More than 1,000 people reported that they felt the shaking from the earthquake, which...

Rebecca Journey, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, thought little of calling her new undergraduate seminar “The Problem of Whiteness.” Though provocatively titled, the anthropology course covered familiar academic territory: how...

For the head of admissions at a medical school, Dr. Mark Henderson is pretty blunt when sizing up the profession.“Mostly rich kids get to go to medical school,” he said.In his role...

On a rainy holiday weekend, the city of Chicago and the sport of NASCAR celebrated the unlikeliest of marriages with a lakefront ceremony.Chicago handled the decorations, with its soaring skyscrapers as the...

Darren Drozdov, a former professional football player whose later career in pro wrestling was cut short after an accident in the ring that paralyzed him, died on Friday in Pomona, N.J. He...