Kevin Sack

Mr. Biden visited Emanuel A.M.E. Church after a racist massacre in 2015 to mourn with a shaken congregation. He returned Monday to warn of the political threats of hate-filled violence.

A series of careful financial decisions, and the creation of nonprofits and academic centers staffed by close advisers, would help a campaign-in-waiting.

The killings of nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston and 11 congregants at a synagogue in Pittsburgh brought people in those two communities together in an unspeakable grief.

The Florida governor and Senate candidate could become the richest member of the next Congress. He’d bring with him a tangle of investments that could benefit from his policies.

FEMA has paid out billions for disaster recovery efforts. But many projects seem to be undertaken in defiance of climate change, leaving structures nearly as vulnerable as before.

Democrats and Republicans alike believe that when Georgia chooses between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp, they will be signaling what the Deep South powerhouse stands for.

Brian Kemp, who ran as a “politically incorrect conservative,” was aided by a well-timed endorsement from President Trump. He’ll face Stacey Abrams this fall.

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church hopes to erect a lasting tribute to both victims and survivors of the 2015 hate crime, and to the resilience of a 200-year-old congregation.

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, the leading Republican in the race, profited off the sale of a high-rise apartment he purchased from a longtime lobbyist.

For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.

After the storm, 17 people joined in prayer before clearing out the flooded house of an aging widow. God, they insisted, was also there.

Documents released since Mr. Roof was sent to death row for a church massacre have some wondering if a full accounting might have meant a different outcome.

Dylann Roof, already sentenced to death in federal court for the South Carolina church massacre, was in court to plead guilty to state murder charges.

The white supremacist will plead guilty to state charges in the church massacre, a decision that will spare victims and relatives of another trial.

The F.B.I. says Joseph Meek’s failure to speak up before the massacre in a Charleston church deprived “law enforcement of the opportunity to intervene.”

As policing has militarized to fight a faltering war on drugs, few tactics have proved as dangerous as the use of forcible-entry raids to serve narcotics search warrants, which regularly introduce staggering levels of violence into missions that might be achieved through patient stakeouts or simple knocks at the door.

With battering rams and flash-bang grenades, SWAT teams fuel the risk of violence as they forcibly enter suspects’ homes. Five months and 85 miles apart, two cases took starkly divergent legal paths.

Using SWAT officers to storm into homes to execute search warrants has led time and again to avoidable deaths, gruesome injuries and costly legal settlements.

Ending years of trying and failing, a so-called Lost Boy of Sudan has finally achieved his dream: becoming an officer with the Atlanta Police Department.

Newly unsealed court documents reveal that a court-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed convicted Charleston murderer Dylann Roof with a host of mental disorders.

Mr. Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine black people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, faced the relatives of his victims.

Dylann S. Roof was found guilty of 33 counts in connection with the June 17, 2015, massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Nine people died.

The impact and implications of the trial of Dylann S. Roof, who was convicted in the shooting rampage that killed nine members of a historically black church in Charleston, S.C.

Roof, convicted of killing nine churchgoers, finds the testimony from families of his victims excessive, and even the judge has misgivings.

Weeks after killing nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C., Dylann S. Roof penned another racist manifesto.

For reporters covering the trial of the Charleston church killer, the testimony has been both revelatory and emotionally draining.

He insisted that he didn’t have a mental illness as he spoke during the sentencing phase of his trial over the killings at a church in Charleston, S.C.

Mr. Roof, who killed nine black worshipers at a Charleston, S.C., church, will represent himself in the penalty phase of his trial starting Tuesday.

The jury heard the case of Dylann S. Roof, a white man who killed nine black people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Family members and friends of the nine victims of the massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church have endured the defendant’s trial with stoicism and grace.

The defense rested without calling any witnesses in the trial of Dylann Roof, who is accused of killing nine people in June 2015.

David I. Bruck, a well-respected lawyer and death penalty foe, will cede to Dylann S. Roof, who will represent himself in the penalty phase of his trial.

On the third day of Mr. Roof’s federal death penalty trial, jurors heard him elaborate on the massacre at a prominent black church in Charleston, S.C., and his motives.

Mr. Roof, 22, is accused of killing nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. He faces the death penalty.

A federal judge allowed the defendant in the Charleston killings to bring back the legal team he fired last week for the guilt phase of his trial.

A federal judge called the request by Mr. Roof “strategically unwise,” but allowed him to have lawyers present as backup.

A federal judge ruled that the trial of Mr. Roof, the avowed white supremacist accused of killing nine black churchgoers in June 2015, can move forward.

The federal judge also delayed jury selection in the death penalty trial of Mr. Roof, who is accused of killing nine worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015.

Documents obtained this week by The New York Times, including a copy of Mr. Trump’s check, at least partly undercut a timeline that looked like a quid pro quo.

With the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, which share 98 percent of our DNA, we are looking into a mirror, and they are looking impassively back.

In addition to doing good deeds, the foundation enhances the Clinton brand, never more so than while Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president.

By comparison, two-thirds of Americans surveyed shortly after President Obama took office said they believed race relations were generally good.

The president invoked the concept of grace and began to sing “Amazing Grace.”

Mr. Pinckney, who was killed last week in the basement of Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. church, often said he was summoned to the pulpit at an early age.

For a fleeting moment last spring, the epidemic sweeping West Africa might have been stopped. But the opportunity to control the virus, which has now caused more than 7,800 deaths, was lost.

Learning from missteps in the Dallas cases of Ebola, health workers and officials took a different approach in the case of a doctor who fell ill in New York.

The fiancée of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola, was among the people watched for signs of the disease because they had contact with him before hospitalization.

The 21-day monitoring period ended for nearly everyone who had contact with the country’s first Ebola fatality, as the Pentagon said it would form a 30-person military medical team.

The number of people who have locked themselves away, either under government orders or voluntarily, has grown well beyond those who lived with and cared for the first Ebola victim in Dallas.

A nurse at the Dallas hospital where the first Ebola patient in the United States was cared for said she had lost confidence in her employer and feared that staff had been put at risk.