Last spring, three college friends and I decided to take our annual meetup a little farther afield, booking a self-guided ...

Fortunately, he was happier in his brother’s padded oshi-e fabric business, where he contributed illustrations. But it was only when he began training as an ukiyo-e artist, culminating around ...

Teams from across the globe competed in DC's Future City contest, tasked with creating innovative, sustainable floating ...

An alarming video from Gaza shows young children handling oversized rifles in the absence of Hamas police. Despite Hamas's efforts to maintain order, children handling weapons instead of toys has ...

Marco Rubio’s visit to Riyadh, his first as secretary of state, came amid uncertainty about the future of Gaza and Ukraine and criticism of unilateral U.S. moves over the wars in both places ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson ...

The US has sparked a frenzy by dismissing the idea that European leaders will have a seat at the table, while Zelensky has been warning that he will not accept a deal done between Washington and ...

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