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Halladay badly wanted to see how he would perform in the playoffs, and when given a chance he threw the second no-hitter in postseason history.

Frank A. LoBiondo of New Jersey and Ted Poe of Texas, who have served in Congress for years, said they would not seek re-election next year.

A sleek new restaurant specializes in a hybrid cuisine that many New Yorkers know only from Nobu.

About 500 people have been detained without charge in a corruption crackdown, but how corruption is defined is unclear.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, ran into the clear limits of trying to run as President Trump had in a swing state.

Background checks are supposed to bar domestic violence offenders like Devin P. Kelley from buying guns. But they can’t if they don’t have the records.

Maine was the first state where voters, not governors or lawmakers, got to decide whether to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Turns out the center can hold, after all.

Devin P. Kelley, who killed 26 people at a church on Sunday, fled a treatment center in 2012, according to police report that also said he had threatened his Air Force superiors.

Shootings at religious sites, like the First Baptist Church in Texas, prompt practical security measures. But the spiritual toll is more complicated.

There has been no independent body to handle misconduct accusations. Instead, they are sent to in-house disciplinarians, widely believed to stockpile the information.

Are we witnessing reform or a coup d’état?

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

On the second day of his visit to South Korea, President Trump tried to make a surprise visit to the demilitarized zone, but dense fog forced his helicopter to turn back.

Mr. Gordon undertook a harrowing spacewalk in 1966 and orbited the moon in 1969, but he never achieved his dream of walking on the lunar surface.

A still-evolving bill will clear committee on Thursday and hit the House floor for a vote the week after.

The president’s bluster is obscuring a real opportunity for diplomacy — and a chance to avert a catastrophe.

A plane carrying Halladay, a former pitcher, went down in the Gulf of Mexico. A two-time Cy Young Award winner, Halladay retired in 2013 after a 16-year career.

As the United Nations convenes a climate conference in Bonn, leaders might consider whether phasing out nuclear energy is doing more harm than good.

The social media service is doubling its character limit for almost all users, a major change that it hopes will spur more activity across Twitter.