The Latest Breaking News from America

The active-shooter scene this time wasn’t from a school in a faraway town like Uvalde, Texas, but rather right down the street at the Central Visual & Performing Arts dual high school complex right across the street from Tower Grove Park. The scenes of ambulance gurneys carting away victims and…

Many people, of course, recoil in horror when famous American spew racist and xenophobic bile. But there is another segment of the population that is invigorated by statements that reflect their own abhorrent attitudes.

The maddening documentary A Decent Home highlights a cross-section of mobile home-owners and the system that aims to ruin them

A new AP-NORC poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans think the federal government is not doing enough to fight climate change

'Death to [fill in the blank]!" has been the slogan of choice chanted by Iranian protesters since the glory days of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. ("Death to the Shah!", "Death to America!", etc) It's now forty-three years later, however, and the content has become a bit more nuanced.

While a whopping 71% of voters said that American democracy is at risk, just 7% named it as the most important issue in this election

NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” is a phenomenal two-brother drama, every bit as intense and rich as anything by Sam Shepard and, frankly, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century. And on Broadway, the director Kenny Leon has put this 2001 masterpiece…

Author and historian says we haven't quite hit "American Midnight" — but the crucial turning point is upon us

In his “Soul of America” speech, delivered at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Sept. 1, President Joe Biden distinguished between two types of Republicans: mainstream Republicans and MAGA Republicans.

SAN DIEGO — For the past 17 years, Ed Fernandez Restaurant Birrieria in the South Bay border community of Nestor has been one the area's best-kept secrets. Not anymore.

Even as former President Donald Trump remains mired in the fallout from his unlawful retention of classified government documents, a new investigation outlines how his businesses bilked the government by massively overcharging the Secret Service to stay at his properties while they were protecting him and members of his Cabinet…