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Two small children died in a Bronx family shelter on Saturday night after being stabbed several times each in the neck and torso, and their mother was in custody, the authorities said.The...

WALDOBORO, Maine — Clam diggers visit Elaine and Ralph Johnston’s hardware store in the coastal town of Waldoboro for shellfish rakes and waders. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, they have also been able...

As a teenager in the 1990s, Karen Imas sneaked onto some abandoned tracks in Queens with her friends. They followed the broken railroad through a sunlit forest until they could go no...

I’m in love with the Thanksgiving season of my imagination, the one with families and friends gathered cozily around a table overflowing with the season’s bounty, children with mittens fastened to their...

WASHINGTON — Republicans may have won control of the House by only the slimmest of margins, but in a chamber that operates purely by majority rule, their razor-thin edge has given them...

Early Friday evening, Mr. Trump made a third attempt at defending himself, saying that Mr. West had sought business advice from him, “expressed no anti-Semitism, & I appreciated all of the nice...

The Walmart supervisor who shot and killed six of his co-workers at a store in Chesapeake, Va., late on Tuesday purchased a pistol only hours before the massacre and left a note...

It’s easy to look at a forest and think it’s inevitable: that the trees came into being through a stately procession of seasons and seeds and soil, and will replenish themselves so...

A Utah man was charged with carrying a weapon on an airplane and assault with a deadly weapon after he held a razor near the throat of the passenger sitting next to...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Every night, as they clocked in for the overnight shift around 10 p.m., the employees of a Walmart in Chesapeake gathered in the break room.They chatted and prepared for...