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The strain of 90-hour workweeks left little time for happy family memories.
Michael McCormack, the veterans affairs minister, takes over from Barnaby Joyce, who was felled by scandals including an affair with a staff member.
A coordinated push by some of the right’s biggest contributors has paved the way for a Supreme Court decision that could cripple public-sector unions.
An administrative trial by the New York Police Department has been delayed for various reasons. And the mother of Mr. Garner says that the “waiting time is over.”
For decades, a poor fishing village has tried to stop a state-run refinery from polluting a bay they share, but the battle has increasingly become one man’s charge.
Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County said he will not resign, despite mounting questions over how his office handled the Parkland school shooting.
The actor, favored to win an Oscar for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” also responds to critics of his racist-cop character.
Inspired by the Olympics? People of all skill levels can get into winter sports like figure skating, bobsledding and, yes, even curling. Here’s how.
Democrats at the party convention threw their support behind Kevin de León, the Democratic leader in the California Senate, who has been running an insurgent campaign.
State and local governments should pass laws to protect facilities that help curb overdose deaths, in the face of the Trump administration’s threats.
Athletes from North and South Korea waved the flags of their own countries as they arrived for the closing ceremony. Only time will tell whether Olympic diplomacy has had a lasting effect.
Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories.
The Olympic Games come to a conclusion with the closing ceremony at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. Stay here for live updates, photographs and analysis.
The American cross-country skier Kikkan Randall took gold and a Norwegian counterpart, Marit Bjoergen, took third in the same race. Both have very young sons.
China’s Communist Party has proposed revising the nation’s Constitution to end a two-term limit, which would allow Xi Jinping to remain president, perhaps indefinitely.
