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Most women know the importance of breast self-exams and regular medical checkups in detecting potentially cancerous lumps. But how many know how to spot the symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer,...

Francis "Chris" Christy, a respected authority on international fish conservation and a deft fly fisherman, died Friday, June 19, in his home in Washington. He had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease....

When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region for jobs at the Xuri Toy Factory in China's booming coastal region, the response was mixed....

Constantine Raitzky, 78, who designed exhibitions for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and was the former exhibition designer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, died...

Harold Snider, 61, a prominent advocate for the blind who helped craft legislation that expanded the civil rights of Americans with disabilities and started an audible newspaper service, died June...

In the beginning, the purpose of the nation's oldest civil rights organization was well defined: to achieve equal justice under the law for black Americans. One hundred years later, as...

A growing number of American children are living in poverty and with unemployed parents and are facing the threat of hunger, according to a federal report released Friday. According to...

Philip Glaessner, a World Bank economist whose language skills helped keep fellow prisoners of war informed during World War II, died June 23 of congestive heart failure in his home...

Rarely since Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper crashed and died more or less simultaneously in an Iowa cornfield on Feb. 3, 1959, has the Celebrity Death Rule...

Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese operatic soprano who along with his French lover was convicted of espionage and whose complicated affair inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway play "M. Butterfly" and...