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Standing on a balcony of the former Capital Children's Museum, Jim Abdo, a developer, gazed down H Street. A few years ago, there were mostly boarded-up storefronts and empty lots...

Murray Klein, who helped transform Zabar's from a typical Jewish delicatessen on the Upper West Side of Manhattan into a culinary and cultural landmark, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was...

Passengers may soon hear a new announcement: "You can now log on." Starting next week and over the next few months, several U.S. airlines will begin testing Internet service on...

Carlos Valdes, better known as Patato, whose melodic conga playing made him a giant of Latin jazz in Cuba and then for more than half a century in America, died...

Cecil Payne, who in the 1940s was one of the first baritone saxophonists to master the intricacies of modern jazz and who for more than half a century was a...

In a sharp rebuke to White House counterterrorism policy, a congressional conference committee has voted to outlaw the harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA against suspected high-level terrorists. The...

A group of investors, including businessmen who are twin brothers and amateur violinists, have agreed to buy a controversial collection of rare string instruments from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra....

Women in the sunniest countries seem to get endometrial cancer less often than those who live far from the equator. Using a large World Health Organization database, researchers have found...

Not too long ago, even just 10 years ago, Jerry Lee Lewis treated songs as if they didn't matter. In concerts at times he sped them up, slowed them down,...

"The Kite Runner" boys are safely out of Kabul. After months of worrying and diplomatic wrangling from half a world away, the movie studio that is releasing the tale of...