The officer said in a letter that he hoped his resignation would “allow the community to heal,” his lawyer said. A grand jury declined on Monday to indict him for killing an unarmed black teenager.
A grand jury rejected the image of Michael Brown with his hands raised in surrender before he was shot, but the questions surrounding his final moments remain murky and unresolved.
A group called Oath Keepers, regarded by some as an antigovernment militia, is placing sentries atop businesses as tensions continue in Ferguson, Mo.
The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe last month. Three years into one of California’s worst droughts, residents of the Rancho Santa Fe area are using more water than those in any other part of the state.
The lush residential horse pastures in Rancho Santa Fe are a reminder that life has continued almost as before in much of the state, even as some elsewhere cope with dry taps.
In taking control of nearly 70 state legislative chambers in the midterm elections, Republicans focused on recruiting women and minorities as candidates.
House Republicans say Congress never appropriated money for a provision of the Affordable Care Act that offers financial assistance to low- and moderate-income people.
Swedish Match, a tobacco company, wants the F.D.A. to change course, by declaring its smokeless product as having “substantially lower risks to health than cigarettes.”
An appeals court found Matthew and Grace Huang of Los Angeles innocent of any wrongdoing and ordered them released, but the Huangs were later stopped from leaving Qatar.
To combat declining attendance, movie theaters are experimenting with more immersive and interactive experiences, including moving seats, scents and precipitation.
The president and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, visited Prose and Politics, an independent bookstore in Washington, on Saturday.
Initial weak numbers revived concerns among retailers that, despite improved economic conditions, shoppers remain wary.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is investigating what provoked the cyberattack, including whether there are any ties to a coming film that has elicited the ire of North Korea.
A critique of the design of 1 World Trade Center, the newly opened skyscraper built at the base of the former twin towers.
To critics who said Mr. Strand’s poems were too dark he replied, “I find them evenly lit.”
As president and managing principal of one of the world’s leading architectural firms, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Mr. Katz was the mastermind of many of its major projects in Japan, Shanghai, London and New York.
Why it’s so hard to prosecute crimes and protect the victims.
After the book and film “Sybil” were released, diagnoses of multiple personality disorder skyrocketed. Was it more awareness by doctors, or overdiagnosis?
After an unusual land deal, a giant spill and a tanker-train explosion, anxiety began to ripple across the North Dakota prairie.
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A year after it was fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama’s main promises, even as it fell short in some ways and gave birth to a new and powerful conservative movement.
For the past year, The New York Times has asked readers to share their experiences purchasing and using health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Here is a selection of their stories.
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The Times would like to hear from Americans who have signed up for health care under the Affordable Care Act.
We were college students, selling worthless books.
The history is more than an ugly stereotype of African-Americans.
