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How our society screens out suffering and thereby makes it worse.

The staging is the star in Matthew Bourne’s pass-the-popcorn adaptation of the movie.

Kim Gervais and two friends went to hear country music. Then the gunfire began. She was gravely injured, one of her friends died and one survived.

The Washington Free Beacon, a website funded by a major G.O.P. donor, initially retained the firm that later conducted opposition research for Democrats.

At an investment summit this week, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince unrolled ambitious urban-building plans. Whether foreign companies and investors will join is uncertain.

As Iceland votes in parliamentary elections on Saturday, a disgraced former prime minister is among those competing to govern.

The drama in Catalonia has featured two very familiar characters from Spanish politics. Will it end in tragedy?

After years of disarray in the wake of the 2012 hurricane, a retired Orthodox Jewish couple find calm in a new home, aided by their unflinching faith in God.

The state is the first in the nation to put expansion of the health insurance program on the ballot, opening a new front in the political battle over Obamacare.

Our top 10 comments of the week: Readers discussed Republicans breaking with Trump, Jane Doe’s abortion, and memories of Fats Domino.

This is how a series of bad breaks, missteps and self-imposed crises grew Mexico’s organized crime problem into a national disaster.

Houston knocked Darvish out of the game before the second inning was over, then relied on strong defense and solid relief work to take the Series lead.

Spain’s prime minister said the central government would take control of Catalonia, and he dissolved the regional parliament and ordered new elections.

Justin Muzinich, a top aide to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, is the Treasury Department point man on taxes.

The deaths of American troops in Niger are sharpening scrutiny of the erosion of constraints on presidential war-making powers.

Hundreds of readers shared their stories of the ripple effects, big and small, of the Weinstein coverage.

As lawmakers in Madrid and Barcelona passed dueling measures, Spain careened into its greatest constitutional crisis since embracing democracy in 1978.

Daniel Arnold’s photographs showcase the season's identity crisis.

The ghosts of the sneakers I didn’t buy are following me around the World Wide Web! An in-store purchase is more satisfying, studies confirm.

Despite a history of separatism in the Basque region, the Catalan crisis does not appear to have yet increased zeal for Basque independence.