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Television turned the celebrity trial into a 24-hour tabloid spectacle. Social media made it into a sport.

Polls show that the overwhelming majority of Americans support some restrictions on firearms, but G.O.P. lawmakers fear they would pay a steep political price for embracing them.

He was known for his intensity, especially in crime dramas, but he was also adept at comedy. “You want to do as many different genres as you can,” he once said.

Eulalio Diaz, who assumes some of the duties of a coroner, was on the scene after the shooting at a school in Uvalde. “My heart dropped,” he said.

Don McLean and Larry Gatlin withdrew out of respect to the victims, as teachers’ unions joined protests for gun control planned in Houston.

James Craig and Perry Johnson, two of the party’s top contenders, were denied spots on the ballot by a state canvassing board. The party-line decision is expected to draw lawsuits.

The couple had been married for 24 years and had four children, with the oldest 23 and the others teenagers.

The former owners of a scuba charter business in Key Largo, Fla., fled the country after the company’s boat sank in 2011, killing a diver. Prosecutors said they knew the vessel needed repairs.

The law prohibits abortion at the point of fertilization, and relies on civilian enforcement to sidestep Roe v. Wade.

Dating back to 1950s preparations for nuclear war and revised after the Sept. 11 attacks, the presidential directives are not shown to Congress.

Agency inspectors found a leaking roof, standing water and cracked production equipment before a facility shutdown that led to major shortages.

Priced out of large metro areas, many young adults are seeking mortgages in midsize cities, new research shows.

Continue reading the main storyUVALDE, Texas — The gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in a rural Texas elementary school on Tuesday entered the building despite being confronted by an armed school security officer, then wounded two responding police officers and engaged in a standoff inside the school fo...

Whether you’ve got a kindergartner or a teenager, here is how to help them in the immediate aftermath of tragedy.

The attack at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed, was the country’s deadliest shooting this year.

The order would direct all federal agencies to revise their use-of-force policies and create a national registry of officers fired for misconduct.

Andrew Abdullah was the subject of a manhunt that began minutes after a gunman shot a passenger on a northbound Q train on Sunday.

The existence of the secretly maintained list was revealed in a bombshell report on the denomination’s handling of sexual abuse over the past two decades.

Gov. Eric Holcomb said the measure barring transgender girls from playing girls’ sports at school was unnecessary, but fellow Republicans in the Legislature disagreed.