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Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, an advocacy group, said that an indictment would send an undeniable message. “No one should normalize relations with a regime that...

It has been less than a week since Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager in Kansas City, Mo., was sent on a seemingly mundane errand to pick up his younger brothers, wound up...

Democrats pushed back against the Republican effort to vilify Mr. Bragg while laboring to show sympathy for the victims.“I fear that you are being used for a political purpose, despite your sincerity,”...

The shooting of a Black teenager who rang the wrong doorbell at a house in Kansas City, Mo., last week led to calls over the weekend for the police to file charges...

House Republicans are descending on New York on Monday for a hearing that will use the issue of crime as a political cudgel against Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who...

Murphy the bald eagle waited day after day in his modest, yet carefully built nest, for his one egg to hatch, but his keepers did not have the heart to break the...

As three police officers responding to a domestic violence call waited outside a home in Farmington, N.M., one of them asked if they had the right address, moments before an armed man...

A fire at a plastic resin plant in Brunswick, Ga., on Saturday prompted officials to issue an evacuation order for people within half of a mile of the facility, the authorities said,...

At least four people were killed and several others were injured in a shooting on Saturday night in an Alabama city, officials said.The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a statement on...

In suburban Houston, parents rose up against a top-rated school district, demanding an entirely new reading curriculum.At an elementary school in Hutchinson, Minn., a veteran teacher is crusading for reform, haunted by...