An 18-year-old gunman opened fire on a residential street in Farmington, N.M., on Monday morning, killing three people before the police arrived and killed the suspect, the authorities said. Nine other people, including two officers, were injured. The authorities received several reports of shots fired near North Dustin Avenue and East Navajo Street just before…
More than 12 million people remained under a heat advisory on Sunday in the Pacific Northwest as temperatures on Saturday soared to more than 20 degrees higher than normal in Oregon and Washington State and toppled records that in some cases had been standing for decades. “Record-breaking heat will impact the Pacific Northwest over the…
In his first interview since announcing that he would seek a second term, President Biden sought to downplay concerns about his age by saying he was the most experienced person to have ever run for the presidency. “I have acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom and know more than the vast majority of…
CLEVELAND, Texas — The loud, rapid-fire bangs from a gun were keeping Wilson Garcia’s baby awake on Friday night, so he asked the neighbor who was shooting if he could stop. The authorities said the neighbor, Francisco Oropeza, 38, who had been drinking, said no. His yard, he said, his rules. Mr. Garcia warned that…
In the 20 years since its inception, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has delivered lifesaving treatment to more than 20 million people in 54 countries, the most successful global health campaign of its kind, according to a report released on Tuesday. The $7.5 billion program, housed in the State Department, is due for…
Five people were shot in New Orleans on Sunday night along the route of a parade that is part of the lead-up to Mardi Gras, the police said, causing people to flee and the event to be cut short. The shooting happened near the intersection of St. Charles Avenue and Terpsichore Street, said Karen A.…
Then, while conducting door-to-door welfare checks in the region early this week, the authorities found the bodies of Mr. Griffith and Mr. Barron. Their deaths were ruled homicides, the authorities said, adding that they believed the men had died from “blunt force trauma,” sometime between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Some items were missing from…
Jennifer Savage was scrambling to pull something together for dinner. Deep in the back of her fridge, she found a container of stuffed peppers. Very old stuffed peppers. She groaned, then did what millions of Americans do every day, without a second thought: She scraped the rotten food into the garbage. Sitting nearby, her daughter,…
Even as a House select committee prepared on Monday to recommend criminal charges in connection with a series of attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the Justice Department has not relented in its own investigation of the culmination of those efforts: the mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The inquiry into the…
It was another act of violence against civilians in the United States this month. In a shooting in Colorado Springs over the weekend, five people were killed at an L.G.B.T.Q. club. A week earlier, three members of the University of Virginia football team were killed in Charlottesville, Va., by a former football player who opened…