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A member of United States Senator Rand Paul’s staff was stabbed Saturday, after leaving a Washington restaurant, by a man who had been released from federal prison 24 hours earlier, records show.The...

“For so long, the culture has been, in the hospital, that medical emergencies are the true emergencies,” said Dr. Christine M. Crawford, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center, who...

GREENWOOD, Miss. — Since its opening in a converted wood-frame mansion 117 years ago, Greenwood Leflore Hospital had become a medical hub for this part of Mississippi’s fertile but impoverished Delta, with...

ROLLING FORK, Miss. — There’s no funeral home that’s capable yet of burying the dead.None of the few restaurants or food stores in town have reopened, so for many people their only...

Female assailants in mass shootings in the United States — like the one that occurred on Monday in Nashville — are extremely rare, according to the Violence Project, which maintains a national...

SACRAMENTO — After being soaked by an onslaught of storms that have flooded towns, saturated fields and heaped the Sierra Nevada with a near-record snowpack, Californians are getting relief from a host...

The storm system that ripped through Mississippi and Alabama over the weekend, causing at least 26 deaths, and left residents and volunteers in the Mississippi town of Rolling Fork digging through rubble.The...

Philadelphia officials on Sunday suggested residents consider using bottled water rather than tap water for drinking and cooking after a chemical spill into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of...

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, Phillip A. Washington, has withdrawn from consideration for the job, according to the White House.Mr. Washington’s Republican critics in the Senate...

George Washington University will soon choose a new nickname for its athletic teams, dropping “Colonials” after years of pressure from students who said the name was entangled with violence toward Native Americans...