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An Alabama woman whose brief disappearance this month drew national attention and prompted sprawling search efforts across the state said through a lawyer on Monday that she had faked the …

Tropical Storm Don, which had strengthened to a hurricane on Saturday, making it the first hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic season, had weakened to a tropical storm by Sunday morning, …

An F.B.I. analyst improperly used a high-profile warrantless surveillance program to conduct overly broad searches about two lawmakers, including a U.S. senator, last June, a newly declassified court ruling released …

For months, President Biden has appeared to delight in needling Donald J. Trump and his Republican allies, trying at every turn to make MAGA and ultra-MAGA a shorthand for the …

Two women visiting national parks were seriously injured in separate bison attacks over recent days, park officials said. In the latest incident, a 47-year-old woman from Phoenix sustained “significant injuries …

As the ostensibly bipartisan interest group No Labels discovered on Monday, consensus campaigning and governance is all well and good until it comes time for the details. At an event …

At least five people were dead and two others remained missing on Sunday after severe floods swept through areas of Pennsylvania and storms continued to threaten much of the Northeast. …

Fossils from animals including dinosaurs and stingrays more than 100 million years old were uncovered in a Maryland park in what experts said could be the widest-ranging discovery of fossils …

The fate of the annual defense bill was in doubt on Friday, after Republicans loaded the legislation with a raft of conservative social policy restrictions limiting access to abortions, gender …

Since 2020, California has led a contentious experiment in high school math. That year, public universities in the state — including Berkeley and U.C.L.A. — loosened their admissions criteria, telling …