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In the 1970s, when the Upstate region of South Carolina was known as the textile capital of the world, Adolphus Jones would clock in for grueling summer shifts at one of the...

The F.B.I. has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel’s so-called enemies list after Mr. Patel told lawmakers that the bureau under his leadership would stay out of the political fray and not...

President Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated as president, visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a physical on Friday, the first of his new administration and one that he...

The Justice Department, in an abrupt reversal, asked a federal judge late Thursday to release a former F.B.I. informant from prison pending appeal of his conviction on charges that he peddled misleading...

Eric Dane, the actor known as the handsome plastic surgeon nicknamed McSteamy in “Grey’s Anatomy,” told People magazine that he has been diagnosed with A.L.S.Mr. Dane told the magazine that he was...

The Senate confirmed early Friday Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, the former National Guardsman and fighter pilot, to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.General Caine is replacing another Air Force fighter...

The Supreme Court on Thursday instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.In an unsigned order, the court...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — a small government agency tasked with the titanic challenge of stemming the spread of illegal guns — has long been regarded as the...

It’s not quite an age-old adage, but at this point it has long been true: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.Michelle Obama, the former first lady, reminded people of this...

Maria Fraterrigo, a grandmother from the Bronx, was booked in seat 4A on a flight from San Juan to Kennedy International Airport on Saturday night. But when she got to the gate...