NEW YORK — Not five minutes after police slipped a “spit hood” over Daniel Prude's head, the 41-year-old Black man went limp. A week later, he was taken off life support. Prude's suffocation in Rochester,…

Waves of fresh furloughs are poised to hit American workers as companies wake up to the reality that the coronavirus is proving more intractable than they initially thought. “The ‘V-shaped’ recovery is a mirage,” said…

Jacob Blake, the Wisconsin man who was shot by police in a videotaped confrontation that has sparked national protests, pleaded not guilty Friday to several charges against him, including one for sexual assault. Blake was…

Democratic lawmakers who've served in the military and other U.S. veterans on Friday blasted President Donald Trump over a report he referred to U.S. war dead as "losers" and "suckers," as the president continued to…

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden and Donald Trump traveled to some of the same battleground states this week at nearly the same time, but they campaigned as if they were running in different elections. When Trump…

An upcoming Nick Jr. show has garnered scrutiny after thousands tweeted that it bears a striking similarity to an Oscar-winning animated short called “Hair Love.” On Wednesday, Matthew A. Cherry, the writer and director of…

The economy added around 1.4 million jobs last month, reflecting a slow return to labor market growth, according to data released on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate fell into the…

BEIRUT — Rescue workers resumed search operations early Friday in a building that collapsed last month in Beirut’s deadly blast in hopes of finding a survivor under the rubble after a pulsing signal was detected.…