The worst of winter has probably already passed, based on history and the signals computer models are sending about the coming weeks.

Matthew Huttle, freed last year after six months in jail, was shot to death in a scuffle with a sheriff’s deputy along a rural road. “Obviously, the use was a great failure of our office ...

NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New ...

NEW YORK — Garth Hudson, the Band’s virtuoso keyboardist and all-around musician who drew from a unique palette of sounds and styles to add a conversational touch to such rock standards as ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67. Richards died Monday at home ...

NEW YORK — Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children’s books, died Friday.

New White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon on Friday afternoon said President Trump’s inaugural speech had echoes of another long-ago American populist. “It was an unvarnished ...

“Deputies and bailiffs tried to get him to drop the weapon. Unfortunately, he did not,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Friday. After a military helicopter collided with a ...

The effort to impeach President Donald Trump is already underway. At the moment, the new commander in chief was sworn in, a campaign to build public support for his impeachment went live at ...

Three congressmen came to George Washington University Hospital around 10:30 a.m. to visit Matt Mika, a lobbyist they said was wounded in Wednesday’s shooting. “Matt Mika, one of the guys who ...

Virginia’s governor has become a close ally of Trump and defended his plan to freeze federal spending as other officials reeled from changing guidance. A judge has blocked President Donald Trump ...