LOS ANGELES — The student had been shot twice, but Katie Holt had only one gunshot wound kit. Holt, a choir teacher, was huddled in her office with 30 to 40 students, hiding from a…

My former diplomatic colleagues Bill Taylor and George Kent were put in a very unfamiliar, uncomfortable position on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. In contrast to their day jobs promoting American interests overseas, often through discrete…

As the Latin music industry gets ready to celebrate 20 years of the Latin Grammys on Thursday, some high-profile artists have been questioning the Latin Recording Academy’s ability to award their work — especially since…

It takes just 20 minutes of calmly staying in the present moment to change the brain and boost a person’s response to mistakes, one of the biggest studies of meditation so far has found. But…

The number of vaping-related illnesses across the country increased again this week, though the jump in cases was smaller than in previous weeks. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 2,172 lung…

The Trump administration is preparing court filings to begin taking over private land to build its long-promised border wall as early as this week — without confirming how much it will pay landowners first, according…

A suspect has been arrested in the 1990s Potomac River Rapist case, in which a woman was murdered and multiple other women were raped in the Washington, D.C. area over the course of seven years.…

Last week, Justice Saliann Scarpulla of the New York Supreme Court ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million in restitution to charity after admitting to New York Attorney General Letitia James that he and…