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Civilians have killed at least 160 gang members in Haiti, a human rights group says. Residents say they feel safer, but others worry that it will lead to even more violence.

The disaster killed at least 288 people, and a preliminary government report described it as a “three-way accident” involving two passenger trains and an idled cargo train. Officials were investigating possible signal failure.

No matter what their age or finances, some elder influencers are finding that being on the app can bring them extra cash, or even help them extend their careers.

A Supreme Court ruling barred Oklahoma from prosecuting crimes committed by Native Americans on tribal land, but some Black tribal members are still being prosecuted because they lack “Indian blood.”

With cross-border strikes, residents of the Russian region of Belgorod are starting to understand the horrors of war being waged at their doorstep.

He said his survival of the Holocaust at 10 years old allowed him to understand “what it is like to be a victim of human rights violations.”

The president and his negotiators believe they worked out a deal that allowed Republicans to claim big spending cuts even as the reality was far more modest.

Now that the bill is law, the nation will not risk running out of money to pay its obligations for two years.

The rail disaster, in the eastern state of Odisha, was among the deadliest in a nation with a history of rail safety problems.

The president addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening, after congressional passage of legislation to prevent economic calamity.

Prosecutors issued a subpoena for a description of military options for Iran mentioned by the former president during an interview. But Mr. Trump’s legal team said they could find no such document.

Negotiations to prevent a government default reaffirmed that the big drivers of future deficits are all off the table in a divided Washington.

Fighting for change has cost Narges Mohammadi her career, separated her from family and deprived her of liberty. But a jail cell has not succeeded in silencing her.

The track, the home of the Kentucky Derby, is moving races to another location while officials look into why 12 thoroughbreds have died at Churchill Downs in recent weeks.

A speech by the U.S. Secretary of State struck a triumphal tone, while also warning against a rush to short-term solutions to the war in Ukraine.

In recent years, the judiciary has shown little but contempt for other governing institutions. It has earned a little in return.

A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased.

Death investigators in Utah are among a handful of groups trying to learn how many gay and transgender people die by suicide in the United States.

A deal to raise the debt ceiling would require borrowers of federal student loans to resume paying for the first time since early in the pandemic.

The final vote on Thursday night came after leaders put down a revolt by some senators who raised concerns that the debt-limit package would under-fund the Pentagon.

President Biden brokered a debt limit deal by following instincts developed through long, hard and sometimes painful experience in Washington.

An overwhelming bipartisan coalition pushed through the compromise struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden, even as lawmakers in both parties signaled displeasure with the plan.

The justices ruled that federal labor law did not block state courts from ruling on a case regarding damage caused when workers walked off the job.

As candidates like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley bolster their biographies with stories of discrimination, they have often denied the existence of systemic racism in America while describing situations that sound just like it.

The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.

Federal prosecutors obtained the recording as part of their investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents.

Pottery workshops like those at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine are filling up with people who want to connect with others instead of screens.

Despite growing Republican opposition, a key committee voted to move the bill forward to the House floor.

When a teen’s killing became a right-wing talking point, the rush to outrage obscured a more complicated story.

Scientists are lugging sophisticated sensors into homes in 10 cities to measure and track the pollution from gas stoves as it drifts from room to room.

Wildfires in Nova Scotia have heightened the sense of unease as blazes also burn in the west of the country.

The disgraced founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, who was convicted of fraud, turned herself in at a minimum-security prison in Texas.

The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.

Two years of spending caps, additional work requirements for food stamps and cuts to I.R.S. funding are among the components in the deal.

Seven women say that a star columnist groped them or made unwanted sexual advances. But Britain’s news media has a complicated relationship with outing its own.

Plans to build apartments have sparked a fight between progressive newcomers and nostalgic old-timers — with surprising allegiances in a writer’s hometown.

Ukraine has charged four members of Russia’s National Guard with war crimes in Kherson. The four acted with such impunity, the authorities say, they did not mask their identities.

The show captured the terrifying, mesmerizing interplay between fact and fiction and turned it into great television.