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Lonnie A. Ray of Darlington County, S.C., had bred and sold dogs for a while, and he knew what safety precautions to take when arranging a sale, according to Daniel Simon, the...

He wrote tens of thousands of jokes in his career. Among those who told them were Dick Gregory, Jack Paar, Red Skelton — and, for a while, President Gerald R. Ford.

The president’s speech contained no outright falsehoods, but at times omitted crucial context or exaggerated the facts.

WASHINGTON — It began on the floor of the House, in an impromptu but strikingly testy exchange just before the State of the Union address.Senator Mitt Romney, the Utah Republican known for...

The police had stopped Mr. Nichols, a 29-year-old FedEx worker and photographer, on the evening of Jan. 7 as he drove along a street near his mother’s house. The officers reported that...

Dudamel, who has been the music director of the Paris Opera since 2021, and of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela since 1999, was a favorite for the podium in New...

Octavia Butler wrote 12 novels and won each of science fiction’s highest honors. She was the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant.In 2020, 14 years after her...

For a month, the Pennsylvania legislature has been frozen by a handful of vacancies in the State House of Representatives that made the difference between Democratic and Republican control, and by representatives’...

WASHINGTON — The top military commander overseeing North American airspace said Monday that some previous incursions by Chinese spy balloons during the Trump administration were not detected in real time, and the...

WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials have arrested two people accused of conspiring to “completely destroy Baltimore” in what they described on Monday as a racist plot to demolish the power grid...