Emergency workers waited for a medical team after finding a body in a car in Joplin, Mo., on Monday.
The twister, which touched down Sunday evening in Joplin, Mo., spread its destruction over a wide swath of the town, ripping apart buildings and cars and touching off fires.
City planners in Chicago are choosing different types of trees and pavement materials after climate scientists have advised them to prepare for a wetter, steamier future.
Two Los Angeles police officers have been conducting interviews to see how standoffs can be handled better.
The nation’s biggest banks and mortgage lenders have amassed a glut of foreclosed homes that threatens to deepen the housing slump.
The N.C.A.A. is being asked to put cheerleading on track to gain full status as a championship sport.
The Obama administration says the law, which cuts off state and federal money for Planned Parenthood, imposes impermissible restrictions on Medicaid recipients.
The president will visit Ireland and London before heading to a meeting of the Group of 8 world powers in Deauville, France.
Budget pressures must not limit spending such that the military is unable to defend American interests, the defense secretary told graduates at Notre Dame.
Amid voter backlash to a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare, the race in the Buffalo area presents a microcosm of the problems the party faces nationally.
A candlepin bowling alley outside Boston closed last week after nearly 56 years.
Articles in this series explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans.
The Drilling Down series examines the risks of natural-gas drilling and efforts to regulate this rapidly growing industry.
This series follows the deployment of one battalion in the northern Afghanistan surge, chronicling the impact of war on individual soldiers and their families back home.
Articles in this series examine issues arising from the increasing use of medical radiation and the new technologies that deliver it.
Video and diagram showing the final moments of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.
As we mark the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, we remember the fallen service members who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The president, speaking to the nation’s foremost pro-Israel lobbying group, repeated his call for Palestinian statehood based on Israel’s pre-1967 borders adjusted for land swaps.
After Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana said he would not run for president, a debate began over whether there would be a candidate able to unseat President Obama.
New York Times readers around the country (and world) submitted their photos and stories of proms recent and long-past.
A reporter reflects on the experience of one American battalion and how success and failure go hand in hand.
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May 20, 2011
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Interactive Feature: A Year at War
