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What it means to serve: Photos of valor and sacrifice

10 years 3 months ago
Jessica Gray stands tall and strong, wearing her late husband's Army T-shirt. His wedding ring rests on a chain around her neck, as her arms wrap tightly and emotionally around the folded American flag that was draped over his coffin just a few months earlier.

Falcon 9 made a successful landing

10 years 4 months ago
SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on an offshore platform on Friday, it's the third time in three months the private space exploration firm has made a successful landing at sea.

The hidden danger of grilling out

10 years 4 months ago
Last winter, a team of doctors at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware treated a 16-year-old girl who had a sharp pain in one spot of her abdomen. Although the doctors suspected she had swallowed something, they were surprised when they pulled out a wire bristle from a grill brush during surgery.

The Bill Cosby trial: How we got here

10 years 4 months ago
Much has been said and written about the sex scandal that has torpedoed Bill Cosby's legacy -- so much so that it can be difficult to recall how he reached the point of facing trial on three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault.

Why Mount Everest is the wild climb they can't resist

10 years 4 months ago
Camp 4 on Mount Everest, the final camp before the summit, is a place most of us will only ever see in photos: perched at 26,180 feet on the shoulder between the giants of Mount Everest and Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain in the world, the place is utterly unlivable, blasted by winds that rip snow from rock and cast it into the surrounding air -- air so thin it's hard to take a step without gasping for breath.

Pot for babies and their desperate parents

10 years 4 months ago
Moments of joy are all too brief for Lavie Parush. They have been since the 2-year-old was born. "Gray" was the word his father used to describe his son, born unconscious. That night, Lavie had his first seizure.
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