As we prepare to enter the third calendar year of the COVID-19 pandemic, our society and its politics have been upended. For all that we have learned about the coronavirus, we are still grappling with how to contain it. More than 790,000 Americans have...

A US former police officer went on trial Wednesday for the death of an African-American man, which she claimed was an accident, saying she mistakenly grabbed her gun instead of her Taser during a routine traffic stop. Kim Potter, 49, is charged with first...

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter is on trial in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot during a traffic stop.

A Russian troop buildup at Ukraine’s border threatens to intensify a long-running conflict.

President Biden issued an executive order Wednesday afternoon that would reduce the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade and reach net-zero federal emissions by 2050. Net-zero means that any pollution contributing to...