How to protect yourself and your home this winter
Wintertime falls and other injuries can be trouble. About a million people are injured annually in falls on snow and ice, the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in Philadelphia says, and thousands...
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Filmmaker Ken Burns turns eye to Vietnam War
Hal Kushner, an Army doctor, had been a starving prisoner of war in Vietnam for weeks when he and his desperate comrades decided to catch and eat the prison commandant's...
Washington Monument to remain closed for at least two more years
Billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein has agreed to fund an overhaul of the Washington Monument's broken elevator system, but the beleaguered landmark will still likely be closed for the next 2...
The starship Enterprise is in the shop for repairs
Captain's log.Star date: January 31, 2016.After 50 years of imaginary, inter-galactic service, and epic flights of science fiction, the starship Enterprise, NCC-1701, lies in pieces on a table at the...
After 74 years, bones from Pearl Harbor tomb ship may be identified
Inside an old aircraft factory here, behind the glass windows of a pristine laboratory, the lost crew of the USS Oklahoma rests on special tables covered in black foam. Their...
A call for equality of justice
Thousands of black demonstrators from across the country marched on the Justice Department on Friday in a large and emotional protest over what they called the inequality of the nation's...
‘A steady pop, pop, pop’
Monday morning. Second floor. Norris Hall. In Room 207, Mr. Bishop's German class is under way. A few doors down, professor Librescu is posting slides for his engineering students in...
Scary histories don’t frighten all home buyers
Houses like the one Christopher Price bought three years ago can be found in neighborhoods across the country -- ordinary houses not much different from those next door, except for...
Burning train puts Baltimore in limbo
Teams of soot-covered firefighters labored inside a century-old railroad tunnel Thursday night to dislodge a burning 4,000-ton freight train derailed beneath the heart of the city with a cargo of...