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Gannon Gill was wrapping up an appointment with a new patient on Wednesday when a loud noise startled him. A few seconds later, he heard it again.Mr. Gill, a physician assistant and...

Look, it’s no secret that we here at The New York Times like words, games and, yes, word games. Not only have we covered spelling bees for nearly 150 years, we’ve also...

A former police officer who shot and killed three people during his five-year tenure with a department in Wisconsin will not be charged in connection with one of the fatal shootings, special...

The body of a man who had been retrieving Frisbees from a Florida public park’s lake that serves as habitat for alligators was found with its arm torn off on Tuesday, the...

Adm. Linda L. Fagan will shatter one of the last glass ceilings in the military on Wednesday when she takes the oath as commandant of the Coast Guard and becomes the first...

WASHINGTON — Michael Sussmann, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Democrats, was acquitted on Tuesday of a felony charge that he lied to the F.B.I. about having no client in 2016...

Rescuers were going door to door to check on residents after a possible tornado struck Forada, a city of about 160 residents in central Minnesota, on Monday, downing power lines and damaging...

In Uvalde, Texas, where many children were killed, one family grieves the death of a small boy and holds his sister close.

“Despite being informed of this, the foreman, Mauricio Sánchez, used it along with a worker, Yonin Grijalva, to take debris from a higher floor. The wire holding the elevator broke under the...

In Uvalde, a largely Mexican American city, Catholicism has remained part of the community’s cultural bedrock, providing charitable support and advocating for impoverished families and undocumented immigrants.Updated May 28, 2022, 1:02 p.m. ETStill,...