Todd Zwillich

Bill Cosby’s new trial for sexual assault begins in the middle of a very different cultural moment than his first, which ended in a mistrial last June.

Striking teachers in Oklahoma are protesting against the institutional and political conditions that have left many public schools underfunded and underperforming.

Last month, ProPublica published the first comprehensive, searchable database of 2,685 of Trump’s political appointees, including their lobbying and financial records. 

More women are being incarcerated in Mexico than ever before, and more babies are being born in prison. 

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued a rare public health advisory on Thursday calling for more Americans to carry the overdose reversal drug naloxone.

A look at this week’s big movie releases, including the prom comedy “Blockers” starring John Cena, and the historical drama “Chappaquiddick” based on the life of Ted Kennedy.  

Police shot and killed a black man holding a metal object believed to be a gun in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Wednesday afternoon.

The trial of three Kansas men accused of conspiring to bomb a local mosque is entering its third week. Defense attorneys say the F.B.I. goaded the men to violence. 

An attack at YouTube HQ in California on Tuesday points to an alarming increase in workplace homicides.

Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality has approved a controversial permit allowing Nestle to increase the amount of groundwater it pumps.

Saltwater has been flooding into farms in the Chesapeake Bay region and destroying land that has been farmed since colonial times.

After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., James Brown helped keep the peace in Boston with a legendary concert.

As efforts continue across the country to curb over-prescribing of opioids, one addiction psychiatrist says: let's take a different approach.

A milestone for Starkville, Mississippi, as the city will get its first ever L.G.B.T.Q. pride parade.

New legal scrutiny is being applied to reports of stifling non-disclosure agreements that have kept White House staffers and porn stars from talking about the president.

With National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on the outs, President Trump has picked John Bolton as his replacement. But what to make of his past remarks about "regime change?"

Dr. Robert Redfield, President Trump's pick to head the C.D.C., has no experience at a public health agency and once advocated for segregating H.I.V.-positive military members.

Between 2007 and 2017, there was a 3,147% increase in new H.I.V. cases in the Philippines. What's causing the infection to spread so rapidly?

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski of Peru announced his resignation on Wednesday amid a swirling bribery scandal. 

22-year-old Stephon Clark was shot and killed by police officers in the backyard of his grandparents' house. He was unarmed.