A small plane with six aboard crashed into a backyard in a residential section of a city in Utah on Saturday afternoon, sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the air, an official said. The official, Officer Jennifer Worthen, a spokeswoman for the West Jordan Police Department, said the crash …...Read More

Federal officers in military gear … … clouds of tear gas … … crowd control munitions … [shots fired] … and locals who want those officers gone. “What are you guys protecting?” “Get the [expletive] out of our city!” In just over a week, the chaotic scenes in Portland grabbed …...Read More

Representative John Lewis, the congressman and civil rights figure who died on July 17, began his long journey home this weekend. On Saturday, his friends and family remembered him at a service in Troy, Ala., where he grew up. His brother Samuel remembered when a young John Lewis left home. …...Read More

TROY, Ala. — In the coming days, John Lewis will be brought to the halls of power. He will lie in state in the Capitol in Washington, as well as in the statehouses in Alabama and Georgia. He will be mourned by lawmakers and governors and the many other influential …...Read More

Richard Gelles, a prominent sociologist, had been one of the nation’s foremost defenders of family preservation, the practice of reuniting biological parents with their children even if they had abused them. But after studying the horrific deaths of many children at the hands of their parents, including a 15-month-old whose …...Read More

“If that isn’t a very disturbing, clear signal that we may have a problem, I don’t know how much more of a blinking red light you need,” he said. “Safe, secure, fair, honest elections really is the holy grail of our democracy. If we can’t trust that or don’t believe …...Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. — A week after federal officers in Portland, Ore., brutally struck a Navy veteran who said he had approached them simply to ask a question, a group of military veterans on Friday joined the front lines of the city’s growing protests. Duston Obermeyer, a Marine Corps veteran, said …...Read More

A preliminary report on four Covid-19 patients published in the medical journal JAMA offers intriguing clues about why some healthy young men become severely ill from the infection, and why men in general are more prone than women to serious effects of the disease. Very rare genetic defects that weaken …...Read More

When natural disasters strike, swift and effective disaster response by local, state and federal officials has always been difficult. The pandemic has made it even harder. “Hurricanes can be deadly events,” Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference on Saturday afternoon. “We cannot allow this hurricane to lead to …...Read More

When an eagle-eyed viewer noticed something on the broadcast journalist Victoria Price’s neck during a televised segment last month, the woman sent her a short, cryptic email. “Just saw your news report,” the viewer wrote to Ms. Price, an investigative reporter for WFLA-TV in Tampa, Fla. “What concerned me is …...Read More