In Torrance, Calif. two people were shot and wounded by police officers who thought the vehicle they were driving belonged to the gunman.
The Los Angeles police said a former officer was targeting members of the department and their families. His truck was found burned near a ski area east of Los Angeles.
California’s snowpack plays a leading role by supplying water to more than 25 million people and almost one million acres of farmland. It is measured monthly in the winter.
A federal judge approved a plan intended to lift a long-standing desegregation order that has served as a reason and an excuse much that has gone wrong in a Tucson district.
A study shows that second-generation Americans outperform the foreign born by many socioeconomic standards.
Emu oil, which comes from a block of fat that covers most of the bird’s body, has proved a boon for ranchers in an industry struggling with decline.
Eddie Ray Routh, accused of killing Chris Kyle, the author of “American Sniper,” had been released from a hospital over his parents’ objections just days before the shooting, his lawyers said.
Statehouses from South Carolina to North Dakota are trying to pass bills that would call for them to ignore or resist federal measures.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy said the White House compromise on health insurance coverage of birth control did not do enough to protect religious institutions.
Joshua DuBois, the young Pentecostal minister who has led President Obama’s Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is leaving, Mr. Obama said Thursday.
Penny Pritzker, an heiress to the Hyatt hotel fortune, withdrew her name from consideration for the same post in 2008.
Rob Morris, a Lutheran pastor who lost a congregation member in the Sandy Hook massacre, apologized after he took part in an interfaith service, violating a denominational rule.
Jim Langevin of Rhode Island, made a quadriplegic at 16, sees the State of the Union address as an opportunity to show the high toll guns take.
A lowly occupant of the fossil record, Protungulatum donnae, had anatomical characteristics for live births that anticipated all placental mammals, a Science report says.
Deep divisions in the Obama administration over rising violence in Syria spilled into public view for the first time in a blunt exchange between Senator John McCain of Arizona and the leaders of the Pentagon.
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee pressed John O. Brennan, the nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the secrecy of targeted killings and their legal basis.
Nearly nine years passed before American forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war in Afghanistan. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, after a troop surge in 2010.
Browse a database of business incentives awarded by hundreds of cities, counties and states compiled during a 10-month investigation by The New York Times.
See the share of Americans’ income that comes from government benefit programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, veterans’ benefits and food stamps.
Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.
General John R. Allen is leaving a war that has become as much about damage control and crisis diplomacy as fighting the Taliban.
Parents like Kelly Williamson say the Boy Scouts of America should stick to traditions and keep out gay scout leaders, while others like Jon Langbert want the Scouts to embrace diversity.
Leases for 114,932 acres of federal land across Colorado are being auctioned off next month as a historic effort to increase domestic natural-gas production.
Jim Ford, a cod fisherman out of Gloucester, Mass., faces an uncertain future after the New England Fisheries Management Council voted Wednesday on painful reductions to cod harvests.
A series of articles and videos chronicling the experiences of military veterans who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan but continue to confront the medical and psychological scars of battle.
This series examines the expectations, disappointments and challenges that shape the lives of Donna Dove, her customers and the city they know intimately, Elyria, Ohio.
According to new research, money actually does buy happiness — with one notable exception.
February 7, 2013
