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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...

There’s only one thing you really need to know as Thanksgiving gets underway, and it applies whether you’re cooking or filling a seat, whether you’re a guest or a host, and whether...

The old maple is dying.It faded slowly at first, but last summer it began to go fast, its lichen-covered limbs snapping and falling to the ground, the gray bark covered with dark...

At least five of the people killed late Tuesday at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., were employees of the store, including several who were part of a tight-knit overnight crew preparing to...