“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Showers and storms should be out of here for the ball drop. Snow or a wintry mix is possible Sunday night into Monday. Bowser’s optimistic tenor appears part of a strategy to collaborate with ...

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 ...