Lie low for a few days, the doctor said, and your concussion symptoms should fade. That was four months ago. The way back has been weird, scary, but also, oddly, an education.  

Perhaps most jarring to this year?s freshmen, three Democrats in their late 70s are running unopposed in elections this week for the top leadership spots in the House. 

The EU approved a divorce deal with Britain, setting out withdrawal terms and a framework for future relations. 

An agreement would break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable new barrier in the path of Central American migrants attempting to reach the United States.  

The Wisconsin students who appeared to make a Nazi salute in a widely criticized photo will not be punished, a school official said this week in a letter to parents. 

Protesters on Saturday marched through an Alabama shopping mall where police killed a black man they later acknowledged was not the triggerman in a Thanksgiving night shooting that wounded two people. 

Faith Murray is 11 years old and blind. And yet she can see better than most. 

A teenager suspected of threatening two Boston gay bars two weeks ago was arrested in Seabrook on Friday night, police said. 

A Miami-bound jetliner struck a bird shortly after takeoff from Logan Airport on Saturday morning, and then safely returned.  

Mr. Jay was a revered sleight-of-hand magician who shined light on centuries of illusionists and consulted with Hollywood to make the impossible seem real. 

Customers were on the hunt for treasure at a record shop in Cambridge on Small Business Saturday, a national effort to encourage people to patronize local stores at the start of the holiday season.