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The mayor, who had been issued a summons for rats at a property he owns in Brooklyn, defended himself at a hearing this week. Eric Adams — mayor, landlord and [...]

Maintenance workers on Sunday inspected the cameras at the 36th Street station in Brooklyn, where a gunman wounded 10 and left 13 injured, and discovered a connection problem. A subway [...]

When the Texas Rangers learned that a woman had died in a jail south of Dallas, they put Adam Russell on the case. He found that there had been a [...]

The team that developed Champlain Towers managed to build the condos despite checkered pasts, internal strife and a last-minute change that infuriated leaders in Surfside, Fla. It was in the [...]

The collapse of Champlain Towers South has prompted a review of hundreds of older high-rises. Some buildings ignored or delayed action on serious maintenance issues. Out of the smoke and [...]

The training, approved by the State Department, underscores the perils of military partnerships with repressive governments. WASHINGTON -- Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post [...]

Sickle cell trait has been cited in dozens of police custody deaths ruled accidental or natural, even though the condition is benign on its own, a Times investigation found. When [...]

Mr. Perdue, who faces one of two runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the Senate, built a business record that shifted manufacturing and jobs overseas. The biographical [...]

Retired Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III serves on the board of Raytheon, one of the world's largest weapons makers, and is a partner in an investment firm that buys military [...]

The Georgia Republican's stock trades have far outpaced those of his Senate colleagues and have included a range of companies within his Senate committees' oversight, an analysis shows. As a [...]

A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family's hotels and resorts -- and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration. It was springtime at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago [...]

State Department officials have raised alarms about the legal risk in aiding airstrikes that kill civilians. The Trump administration recently suppressed findings as it sold more weapons to Gulf nations. [...]

The package being pushed by the Trump White House -- which could shift the military balance in the Middle East -- includes an electronic warfare plane, the EA-18G Growler. WASHINGTON [...]

The inspector general also found the State Department avoided congressional review by dividing sales of controversial arms into smaller packages. WASHINGTON -- The State Department inspector general issued a report [...]

The agency gave its interpretation of an inspector general's report on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushing arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., but declined to release the [...]

The Trump administration lifted a ban on sales of silencers to private overseas buyers that was intended to protect U.S. troops from ambushes. The change was championed by a lawyer [...]

Lobbyists like David Urban, whose connections start at the very top, are thriving as they help the president's re-election effort while aiding corporate clients. WASHINGTON -- The chief executive of [...]

The deaths of Eric Garner in New York and George Floyd in Minnesota created national outrage over the use of deadly police restraints. There were many others you didn't hear [...]

Mike Pompeo and other aides to President Trump are discussing ending a bipartisan review process because lawmakers have held up sales to Saudi Arabia over civilian casualties in Yemen. Senior [...]

The gunman who killed three in Florida was not directed by Al Qaeda, nor inspired solely by online ideology. He was a new kind of terrorist, harder to spot: an [...]

Congress is looking into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked President Trump to fire Steve Linick, the department's inspector general, to retaliate for investigations. WASHINGTON -- A senior State [...]

Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen Year after year, the bombs fell -- on wedding tents, funeral halls, fishing boats and a school bus, killing [...]

The Trump administration cited interference by Houthi rebels. But humanitarian groups and some Democrats asked for a delay because of the pandemic. The Trump administration on Friday cut off tens [...]

WASHINGTON -- When the Trump administration declared an emergency last month and fast-tracked the sale of more American arms to Saudi Arabia, it did more than anger members of Congress [...]

Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world's largest technology companies, intensifying scrutiny of the social media giant's business practices as [...]

Facebook and some of the other largest technology firms in the world faced sharp criticism on Wednesday for failing to disclose the extent of the social network's data-sharing deals, many [...]

Facebook and some of the other largest technology firms in the world faced sharp criticism on Wednesday for failing to disclose the extent of the social network's data-sharing deals, many [...]

For years, Facebook gave some of the world's largest technology companies more intrusive access to users' personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual [...]

WASHINGTON -- For the young Russian gun rights activist studying in the United States, it would have been an unimaginably rich payday: $1 million to help broker the sale of [...]

Federal prosecutors who said that a Russian gun-rights activist traded sex as part of a secret influence campaign had only weak evidence to support that claim, the woman's lawyers argued [...]

WASHINGTON -- Twelve days after a young Russian gun-rights activist gained access to some of America's most prominent conservatives, at an elegant dinner near the Capitol, a Republican operative was [...]

Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China's government, the social media company said on Tuesday. [...]

As Facebook sought to become the world's dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device makers access to vast amounts of its users' personal information. Facebook [...]

It was the wrong place for a spare piece of rail -- 13 feet long, more than 400 pounds and lying, unsecured, in the center of a busy stretch of [...]

After a drumbeat of transit disasters this year, it became impossible to ignore the failures of the New York City subway system. A rush-hour Q train careened off the rails [...]

Amtrak officials knew for years that they would have to replace large sections of deteriorating track in Pennsylvania Station in New York City. As engineering crews applied short-term fixes to [...]

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- For local officials here, it was one thing to spar with Donald J. Trump, the developer, over the height of his ficus hedges, the crowds at [...]

Byline: MICHAEL LAFORGIA; TIMES STAFF WRITER Donald J. Trump has a story he liked to tell early in his campaign to win Florida. The first time he told it, he [...]

Byline: ANTHONY CORMIER; SAM HOWARD; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; TIMES STAFF WRITERS Government agencies are refusing to release basic public records about Omar Mateen and the deadly Orlando shootings. In the days [...]

Byline: BEN MONTGOMERY; SAMUEL HOWARD; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; TIMES STAFF WRITERS PORT ST. LUCIE -- Hours before Omar Mateen attacked an Orlando nightclub on Sunday, leaving 49 dead and 53 wounded, [...]

Byline: ANTHONY CORMIER; SAMUEL HOWARD; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; BEN MONTGOMERY; TIMES STAFF WRITERS FORT PIERCE -- Inside the humble little mosque where Omar Mateen regularly came to pray, a handful of [...]

Byline: LISA GARTNER; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; TIMES STAFF WRITERS Despite promises made 16 years ago to settle a civil rights-era desegregation lawsuit, the Pinellas County School Board still isn't spending enough [...]

Byline: CARA FITZPATRICK; LISA GARTNER; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; Times Staff Writers ST. PETERSBURG -- Black leaders on Wednesday vented frustration at being left out of new proposals to aid St. Petersburg's [...]

Byline: CARA FITZPATRICK; LISA GARTNER; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; Times Staff Writers The U.S. Department of Education on Monday opened a civil rights investigation into whether the Pinellas County School District systematically [...]

Byline: CARA FITZPATRICK; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; TIMES STAFF WRITERS ST. PETERSBURG -- Citing broken promises by the Pinellas County School Board, the plaintiffs in a 50-year-old federal desegregation lawsuit announced Wednesday [...]

Byline: MICHAEL LAFORGIA; Times Staff Writer The Pinellas County School District uncovered a pattern of suspicious changes to test scores of struggling students enrolled in computer-based credit recovery courses at [...]

Byline: CARA FITZPATRICK; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; Times Staff Writers ***** (12/31/2015) CORRECTION: A graphic accompanying a Dec. 27 story about the racial breakdown of students attending Pinellas County fundamental schools was [...]

Byline: CARA FITZPATRICK; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; COLLEEN WRIGHT; TIMES STAFF WRITER LARGO -- The Pinellas County School Board on Tuesday aired a video in which local business leaders praised district officials [...]

Byline: LISA GARTNER; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; NATHANIEL LASH; TIMES Most large Florida school districts are moving away from suspending children for nonviolent misbehavior - part of a nationwide consensus that harsh [...]

Byline: CARA FITZPATRICK; LISA GARTNER; MICHAEL LAFORGIA; Times Staff Writers ST. PETERSBURG -- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Pinellas County School District, calling [...]