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A hard-working bricklayer from the projects, Humberto Trujillo helped build the main Phoenix post office — and rose to become his city’s first Hispanic postmaster.

In a heated conversation onscreen, the way performers approach silent moments is as important as their dialogue.

We revisit memorable moments from the past four years.

Yes, there are fanny packs and mustaches galore in “Wonder Woman 1984,” but also some breathtaking action.

Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in Oklahoma.

A devout Christian, Jerry Givens was Virginia’s chief executioner, before he became an advocate of abolishing the death penalty.

When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became a surrogate parent and an activist against drunk driving in Minnesota.

None of the police officers who raided Breonna Taylor’s home wore body cameras, impeding the public from a full understanding of what happened.

A disagreement between musicians reaches a boiling point in this scene from “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” the Netflix film adaptation of August Wilson’s play.

Rosary Castro-Olega was a retired nurse who returned to the frontlines to fight the virus, ultimately becoming one of the Filipino-American nurses who were disproportionately killed by the virus.

This fall New York City’s public schools faced perhaps their biggest challenge in memory: Could they resume in person safely? And for how long?

In addition to its time-bending spectacle, “Tenet” manages to find room to spring its lead characters up the side of a tower.

"A Concerto Is a Conversation" by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers - Kris Bowers is one of Hollywood’s rising young composers.

What if athletes and coaches were trained to look for depression just as vigilantly as they’d be watching for a hamstring pull?

Faced with a lack of prosecution of those accused of crimes against humanity committed during Argentina’s military dictatorship, family members and descendants of the country’s estimated 30,000

In the latest Diary of a Song, the Prince Estate and his closest collaborators offer an unprecedented peek into Prince’s creative process.

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, Americans have another disease to worry about — the flu. Fortunately, there’s already a cheap, effective and readily available influenza vaccine.

The first African-American mayor of New York spoke to The Times in 2013 about his rise to City Hall and his fall after criticism for his handling of racial violence in Brooklyn in 1991.

California famously prides itself on environmental leadership — but what about when its lawmakers overlook problems in their own constituents’ backyards?

A teenager’s bedroom becomes an escape room in the thriller “Run,” streaming on Hulu. Kiera Allen plays Chloe, a wheelchair-user whose mother (Sarah Paulson) has locked her in.

In the days after the election, Times reporters went to four swing state counties with some of the tightest vote margins to see how people were feeling. The answer? Still pretty divided.

The Netflix holiday extravaganza “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” provides plenty of seasonal razzle dazzle. But it includes one groovy song break that’s not like the others.

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Turnout this election is projected to be the highest in a century, and voters are doing everything they can to make their voices count. Waiting in line for hours (even if you’re the mayor).

Armed groups showed up to scores of racial justice protests since May. Our video shows how police officers at times let them operate freely.

President Trump and his campaign have been calling for an army of poll watchers on Election Day. What is poll watching, and when does it cross the line?

We’ve all heard how U.S. leadership failed its citizens with its pandemic response. We had the playbooks, we had the money, we had the experts. We just … didn’t use them.

A global cabal of celebrity pedophiles? Trafficked children being sold online through a furniture website? And Donald Trump about to rescue us from it all?

In 2016, Russia developed a simple, effective playbook to undermine U.S. elections with disinformation on social media. Four years later, Americans are using the same playbook on each other.

Yes, the writer and director Justin Simien’s new horror movie, “Bad Hair,” is about a killer weave. But it makes time to bathe not only in blood, but also in nostalgia.