Habits are hard to break. I quit smoking 40 years ago — on April 23, 1986 (not that I’m counting). It was one of the toughest things I’ve ever done. Today is my final column for The Times. This habit ...

Politically motivated assassinations, aggressive immigration raids and a second Trump presidency reshaped the role of federal ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic. Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - More than 200 former employees of the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday criticized what they called the ongoing "destruction" of its Civil Rights Division, saying ...

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DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order designating the street drug fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. "The manufacture and distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized ...

The explosion does not seem criminal in nature, emergency officials said. One person is dead after a U-Haul truck appears to have accidentally exploded in a parking lot in Idaho early Saturday, ...

The United States is trying to fight a modern, high‑intensity war with an explosives supply chain that still has 20th‑century ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

A gas line explosion in Hayward, Calif., sent multiple victims to the hospital and led to a fire that burned several houses. By Soumya Karlamangla A gas line exploded on Thursday in a Bay Area city, ...