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The Sly & the Family Stone leader has died at 82. Here’s what to know about his brilliant career and crushing addiction.

Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Israel had vowed to prevent the vessel from reaching Gaza, saying its military would use “any means necessary” to stop it from breaching a naval blockade.

He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.

The civilian ship, called the Madleen, was on a mission organized by a group that opposes the nearly two-decade-old blockade of Gaza.

The proposed limits on federal loans fall well below the costs of medical school. Critics say this could deter students from pursuing medicine.

The president often expresses an open desire for aggressive law enforcement and harsh tactics when protests originate from the political left.

The U.S. health secretary chose to “retire” members of a committee that makes significant decisions about who receives immunizations, including the vaccines for children.

Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

The members of Congress say they were turned away when they tried to inspect buildings where people were detained in connection with immigration raids and the protests against the raids.

President Trump threatened to cut off Elon Musk’s federal contracts, showing that he looks at the government as his own means of penalizing those who cross him.

The Trump administration and its allies have worked hard to conceal the true impact the legislation would have on the country.

Researchers looked at firearm fatalities in the 13 years immediately after the Supreme Court limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership.

In a scathing public letter, employees of the National Institutes of Health accused the administration of undermining the agency’s work and endangering people’s health.

Mr. Moran made the comment in a late-night social media post in which he also derided President Trump. It drew a rebuke from Vice President JD Vance.

The authorities said a soldier was assaulted with a hammer as the men tried to steal gear from a military base in Washington State. The theft led investigators to a house full of contraband.

The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.

Armed agents in tactical gear threw flash-bang grenades to disperse a crowd in Los Angeles’s Fashion District. Later, agents fired less-than-lethal ammunition at protesters outside a detention center.

The grid operators that draw power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb extra costs.