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After the deadliest month yet for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, three American soldiers were killed Saturday in a bombing in a southern province, and a French soldier died in a...

Looking for fireflies is a well-loved summer-night activity, but now there's a new reason to get outside and find those flashy little insects. The National Children's Museum has teamed up...

Sandford Dody, a ghostwriter who as alter ego, confidant and shadow coaxed best-selling autobiographies out of Bette Davis, Helen Hayes and other stars of stage and screen, died July 4...

Bobby C. Wilks, the first African-American Coast Guard aviator and the first African-American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain, died Monday, July 13, in Emeritus at Lake Ridge,...

Crocs were born of the economic boom. The colorful foam clogs appeared in 2002, just as the country was recovering from a recession. Brash and bright, they were a cheap...

Senate Democrats are scrambling to defeat a Republican-backed provision that would let gun owners carry concealed weapons across state lines, overriding the stricter laws of many jurisdictions. Critics, including police...

A federal judge has ruled that government officials committed fraud while defending a lawsuit brought by a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who accused a CIA operative of illegally bugging...

Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year. A distillation of testimony from survivors and former guards, newly published...

In a recent article in The Washington Post, reporter Lois Romano described a Michelle Obama staff meeting and problems for her first chief of staff, Jackie Norris, who was replaced...

Many of the banks that got federal aid to support increased lending have instead used some of the money to make investments, repay debts or buy other banks, according to...