Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The 67-year-old author was also shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize for James, which »»»

Three college students of Palestinian descent out for a walk in Vermont were seriously injured over the weekend when a man shot them at close range on a city street — an attack being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities said. Jason J. Eaton, 48, made his initial court appearance by vi»»»