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A large tornado struck near Little Rock, Ark., on Friday afternoon, injuring more than 20 people, tearing down trees and destroying homes, according to the National Weather Service, whose meteorologists in the...

WASHINGTON — Cecilia Rouse, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, will step down on Friday and return to teaching at Princeton University. As a going-away present fit for...

A former American president has been indicted.A Manhattan grand jury voted yesterday to indict Donald Trump. The case relates to his involvement in paying hush money to a porn star to bury...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who is widely expected to challenge Donald J. Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, called the indictment of Mr. Trump “un-American” and said that his...

The killer whale Lolita, which has entertained generations of visitors with colossal leaps and sloppy belly flops that splashed crowds at the Miami Seaquarium, will be returning to her native waters after...

California is taking the unprecedented step of manufacturing its own insulin, part of a broader effort by state and federal legislators to lower prescription drug costs.Two weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced...

Two United States Army helicopters collided during a training mission near a sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border on Wednesday night, causing casualties, the Army said.The two HH-60 Black Hawk assault...

Those commuters are crucial to Manhattan’s continued resurgence and may help explain the struggling commercial real estate market, a bellwether for the city’s fortunes. Last week, office occupancy in the New York...

As he awaits possible indictment by the Manhattan district attorney and remains under scrutiny in multiple other criminal investigations, former President Donald J. Trump has regularly railed against a justice system that...

A tiny Pacific island nation has pulled off the kind diplomatic win that can elude global superpowers.On Wednesday, Vanuatu, population 300,000, rallied a majority of countries to ask the world’s highest court...