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The 18-year-old was wearing a tactical vest and carrying additional rounds of ammunition, the Capitol Police said. Congress was not in session, and no one was hurt.

Starting with $500,000 in seed money from Charles Koch, Mr. Crane made the Cato Institute the nation’s pre-eminent libertarian think tank.

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force who formed a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of …

The shooter was also dead, apparently by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the authorities said. The shooting, which the police described as a “targeted event,” happened at the Dennis M. Lynch …

Prosecutors say Colin Gray is criminally culpable after his teenage son killed two students and two teachers with a rifle that had been a Christmas gift.

The Olympic journey of Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play for the U.S. hockey team, has captivated her hometown, Cleveland Heights.

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on Saturday amid a standoff over restrictions that Democrats have demanded for federal immigration agents. But much of its work continues.

Richard Tillman, brother of the N.F.L. star turned Army Ranger who died in a case of friendly fire in Afghanistan, drove a vehicle into a California post office while it …