In testimony from roughly 60 witnesses, there were varying accounts of the critical final moments, when Michael Brown stopped running, turned and moved back toward Officer Darren Wilson.
Ferguson, Mo., was reeling from a chaotic night after it was announced that a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager would not be charged.
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People around the country protested after a St. Louis County grand jury decided not to bring charges against Darren Wilson, a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager.
The Food and Drug Administration announced a sweeping rule that will require chain restaurants and movie theaters to post calorie counts on their menus.
As prices for some generic medicines soar, state and federal lawmakers are trying to find relief for those struggling to pay.
Francis told the European Parliament that the Continent had become too “fearful” and needed to give “acceptance and assistance” to people fleeing war and poverty.
From ooey gooey bars to pig pickin cake to frog eye salad, a look at which foods are unusually popular in each state on Thanksgiving.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that world powers involved in the nuclear negotiations “had failed to bring Iran to its knees.”
Villagers of Yahya Khel, where a bomber killed 61 people Sunday, expressed anger at the Taliban but also at a national government they felt had offered them little.
A Peace Corps official cited “cascading delays and failures in treatment” as a factor in the death in 2013 of Nick Castle.
The chef Einat Admony and the flavors of multiethnic Israel shine after the restaurant’s rough start.
Ali Smith says her new novel, “How to be both,” explores how every great narrative is always about what is on the surface and what is hidden.
Bring along this decadent dessert offering with honeyed pears that can compete with leftover pie.
Domestication happened to humans, too. We’ve evolved a lot like pets.
Why Italy’s urban peripheries are coming apart — and how to save them.
The once-thriving casinos continue a long, painful slide from the glory days of the 1970s.
In a true meritocracy, whites would be a minority of the student body. That worries some people.
The actor Brian Cox lives in a Brooklyn high-rise with his wife, Nicole Ansari, and their two sons.
A new development by the Related Companies could raise the profile of Snowmass, one of Colorado’s largest ski mountains.
