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There are so many good reasons to return to hobbies and activities that gave us joy when we were younger, as these reader stories show.

A suspect was in custody on Friday night in the deaths of three children whose bodies were found at a house in Italy, Texas, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office said.Two other children...

WASHINGTON — President Biden had a cancerous lesion removed from his chest during his physical last month, the president’s doctor said Friday.The existence of the lesion was included in the summary of...

Jesse Treviño, a lauded Mexican American artist who lost the use of his dominant right arm in a land mine explosion as a soldier in the Vietnam War, but who went on...

Millions of Americans work less than they used to, or not at all, because they can’t find someone to take care of their children. The lack of adequate child care not only...

A powerful line of thunderstorms barreled through North Texas on Thursday, bringing golf-ball size hail and winds of up to 70 miles per hour that toppled power lines and damaged homes.A tornado...

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Twelve jurors began deliberating on Thursday afternoon over whether Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and son, weighing the prominent South Carolina lawyer’s fate after listening to nearly six weeks...

Snow has engulfed mountainous regions of California in the past week, shutting down long stretches of roadways, closing Yosemite National Park and burying many communities.The extreme weather forced Yosemite to close on...

MEMPHIS — Steel bridges curving over calm water. Neon lights pulsing above blues clubs. A fiery sun melting into a bank of clouds.Through the lens of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old aspiring photographer...

CHICAGO — David O. Brown, the embattled superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, announced his resignation on Wednesday, on the heels of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s defeat in a mayoral race that was...