The Hard Road Back
Baffling Rise in Suicides Plagues the U.S. Military
By JAMES DAO and ANDREW W. LEHREN
Of the crises facing American troops today, suicide ranks among the most emotionally wrenching — and confounding.
Of the crises facing American troops today, suicide ranks among the most emotionally wrenching — and confounding.
The military population is fluid. Service members join and leave constantly, and National Guard and reserve troops flow on and off active-duty rosters.
A Marine veteran haunted by his service writes that the time has come to change the perception of post-traumatic stress disorder to allow greater honesty and healing.
Rescue workers combed through a subdivision southwest of Fort Worth, where several people remained unaccounted for Thursday morning.
A note scrawled inside the boat where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding cited the killing of Muslims, an official said.
Elena Barbera has undertaken a modest fund-raising drive with daily ascents of the Bunker Hill Monument.
The suspect in a Mother's Day parade shooting in New Orleans has made his first court appearances.
The administration is pushing for greater protections for reporters who refuse to identify sources, even as officials face anger over the seizure of Associated Press records.
Researchers fused skin cells with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically identical to the person who provided the skin cells.
The Obama administration stepped up pressure on the Internal Revenue Service and sought to insulate itself from the outcry over the agency’s special scrutiny of conservative groups.
The Obama administration controversies of recent days have reinforced fears of an overreaching government and called into question Mr. Obama’s ability to master his own presidency.
President Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid questions about last year’s attack in Libya, will make his appeal at a news conference Thursday.
Messages released by the White House showed fierce jostling between the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, and at the highest levels of the C.I.A., on talking points after the attacks in Libya.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will introduce a bill that would give military prosecutors rather than commanders the power to decide which sexual assault cases to try.
Even as West, Tex., is beginning to rise a month after a fertilizer plant exploded, some people are asking at what cost.
The sentence was part of an agreement that will spare Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, the death penalty.
The Red River Women’s Clinic, in Fargo, argues that requiring its doctors to have local admitting privileges would effectively put it out of business.
For reality TV show producers, Louisiana, home of “Swamp People” and “Duck Dynasty,” is a gift that keeps on giving.
If engineers cannot restore a mechanism that keeps the Kepler spacecraft’s telescope pointed, one of the most romantic and successful of NASA’s missions could end.
The White House released 100 pages of e-mail exchanges among top officials as they negotiated talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
Documents and research related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
In 2007, Deborah Lindner, then 33, underwent an elective double mastectomy after finding out she had a gene carrying a high risk of breast cancer. Six years later, Dr. Lindner offers an update.
On April 15, the first of two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Here are the stories of the runners, spectators and others seen in this image.