The 16-year-old girl was fatally shot while threatening a young woman with a knife. She had spent two years shuttling among Ohio foster homes, hoping to return to her mother.

Doctoring baseballs with ultra-tacky substances has pitchers dominating and some questioning the game’s integrity. Can cleaning up the balls liven up the sport?

May 2021 was the turning point, and we chronicled it, moment by moment, through the eyes of 15 photographers 25 and under.

A Cape Cod fisherman is recovering after miraculously emerging without serious injuries after spending nearly a minute in the maw of a humpback whale who mistook him for a snack.

New federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to contract the virus and die from it.

Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd was...

As the pandemic worsened inside federal prisons, officials granted fewer releases.

The debaters’ focus on Mr. Adams, centering on questions of his residency, reflected his front-runner status in the race for New York City mayor.

The Democrats leading the investigation are seeking to determine whether the federal government has done enough to ensure that the substance is safe to use on humans.

Matt Schembechler said he told his father, who was head football coach at the university from 1969 to 1989, about the abuse but that his father did nothing in response.

Questions have swirled since the shooting about whether VTA and local law enforcement missed any warning signs before Samuel Cassidy opened fire on May 26.