American child abuse victim

The Steamboat Arabia was built in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1853. At 171 feet long, the Arabia traveled the Missouri river and transported passengers, as well as carried up to 222 tons of cargo. But navigating the Mighty Missouri was a difficult…

canal in Louisiana, United States of America

Here's a world record you don't want to set.The world’s largest kidney stone has been removed from a patient in earlier this month.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury delivered its semiannual Report to Congress on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States.  In this Report, Treasury reviewed and assessed the policies of major…

Harveys’ bomb remains a teaching tool for FBI more than 30 years after the blast   In the early morning of August 26, 1980, three men dressed in blue worker’s coveralls wheeled an object roughly the size of a copy machine through a side entrance...

"Singing, entertaining and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived," Robert Clary shared of his Holocaust experience

2011 natural disaster in the United States

Human disease

Some occupations require more physical activity than others. For example some require workers to stand and walk more, compared to sitting. Among all civilian jobs in 2017, workers spent an average of 60.4 percent of their workday standing or walking and 39.6…

Amidst the terror and tragedy of the day came these everyday heroes who answered the call when the city needed them most

A behind-the-scenes look at the ways the National Zoo assists Washington's most famous sexually frustrated bear couple

Three Apollo 11 astronauts went to the moon (two landed) and safely returned to Earth in July...

Test pilot Bill Suitor was getting ready to fly. Wiping the sweat off his brow, Suitor pulled the 120 pound Rocket Belt 2000 onto his back, and held the...

1993 film by Buck Adams

For a decade, Arizona-based Biological Resource Center persuaded dying Americans to donate their bodies to science. Here’s what happened to thousands of donors

Continental Army soldier

The Beijing Weather Modification Office is a unit of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau tasked with weather control in Beijing, and its surrounding areas, including parts of Hebei and Inner Mongolia.

British actor