New York Times

A driver fled the scene after ramming a vehicle into a group of people, including children, outside a Maryland home on Saturday night, the police said.

Mayor John Whitmire of Houston believes the best way to govern a diverse, immigrant-heavy city in the current political climate is by keeping your head down and your ambitions modest.

Democrats’ vision for the country won’t matter unless they can get people to pay attention to it.

French officials said the thieves broke into a second-floor wing of the Paris museum that houses a collection including the French crown jewels.

Sanae Takaichi is poised to break Japan’s political glass ceiling. But some worry she will maintain policies that have held women back.

Residents who have gone back to the battered north of the territory after the cease-fire say it is a wasteland that will take years to rebuild.

The spending showdown has highlighted Republicans’ failure to produce an alternative to Obamacare, which many of them assail but concede is too politically risky to undo.

An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime, and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.

With the World Series just days away, we look at the beauty of baseball — even if one team looks unbeatable.

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.