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In an interview, Duncan said a provocative approach is needed if gun laws are ever going to change.

A short explosion from the Kilauea crater sent an ash cloud about 10,000 feet into the air around midnight Saturday.

It is no longer a matter of whether there will be another school shooting in America; it is a matter of when and where. The reality has led to parents being afraid to send their kids to school and a resignation that nothing is likely to…

Officials said procedures worked as intended, but a gunman was still able to enter the facility, kill students and teachers, and hold off police for 30 minutes.

Ten people — eight students and two adults — were killed during first-period classes on Friday, the result of the latest mass shooting during school hours.

Kilauea’s eruptions threaten residential communities on the Big Island, but the residents roll with the lava flow, ash plumes and acrid, sulfurous air.

Here's why the most adorable puppy you've ever seen was probably around 2 months old.

As the mental-health system falters, psychiatric patients often get stuck in emergency departments.

Sikander Imran, a former doctor at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, was sentenced to three years in prison for slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant ex-girlfriend’s drink, causing her to miscarry. He pleaded guilty earlier…

More than 7 million people nationwide may have had their driver’s licenses suspended for failure to pay court or administrative debt, a practice that advocates say unfairly punishes the poor, a Washington Post analysis found.

Sabika Sheikh grew up in Pakistan — a country that is intimately familiar with deadly attacks on schools. Between 2007 and 2015, there were 867 attacks on educational institutions in Pakistan, according to the Global Terrorism Database.…

The prince and princess hadn't even said their vows before BBC Three — the edgy BCC — tried to start some trans-Atlantic drama.

The first lady spent five nights at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a procedure to treat a benign kidney condition.

The remark by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, echoing some of National Rifle Association positions, quickly became a punchline about how Republicans would rather restrict doors than guns.

The shooting occurred in a parking lot following an argument as families were leaving the graduation ceremony.

Two people were killed in the accident on Interstate 80 in Mount Olive Township around 10:20 a.m. Thursday.

The former Dallas County judge facing allegations of racist behavior admits to incentivizing his children to marry within their race.

In the wake of another mass shooting at a U.S. school, Santa Fe High School students stay “Texas Tough” while mourning the 10 who were killed Friday.

He had no run-ins with police and was an honor roll student. Police say he killed 10 people in his high school, the latest in a string of mass shootings.

In conservative Gillette, Wyo., a young advocate finds her voice.

The study compared acupuncture with “sham acupuncture” and found it did not make a difference for women undergoing in vitro fertilization.

Being a Latina with a Greek last name, I always get the question: “What are you?"

“It's been happening everywhere,” Santa Fe High School shooting survivor Paige Curry said with a shrug.

The interior secretary and his wife have arranged special visits to parks and historic destinations.

With a pistol holstered on his hip and an American flag in his hand, the man, who was wearing a Trump hat, spoke briefly to reporters gathered at Santa Fe High School, saying he was there to offer support.

Along the way, he theorized two new forms of molecular carbon.

The United States is also sending personnel from the CDC and equipment from the USAID.

“I can’t wrap my head around it ... to do this to a little boy. I don’t get it,” her former attorney said.

President Trump on Friday nominated the Department of Veterans Affairs’ acting secretary, Robert Wilkie, as its permanent leader, choosing a Washington insider to restore confidence in an agency roiled by political infighting. Wilkie, 55,…

It has become a familiar pattern in the all-too-common aftermath of American school shootings: A barrage of online misinformation, seemingly designed to cloud the truth or win political points. But some were still surprised at the speed…