In the 1970s, she made history while running in Boston and New York. She later fought to get a women’s marathon into the ...

As a correspondent for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair and the New York Times, he wrote vivid accounts of aviation disasters, shipwrecks and the Iraq War.

A renowned post-minimalist, he crafted stick-figure-like sculptures, including for a piece outside the Holocaust museum in ...

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the ...

In 1952, she and her friend Marianne Mantell founded Caedmon Records, putting out LP records of poets and authors reading ...

For nearly 30 years, he wrote and conducted virtually all of the show’s music cues and original songs. Creator Matt Groening ...

As a chemist at Florida State, he pioneered techniques used in the large-scale production of Taxol, a blockbuster anti-cancer agent.

Harrison Smith is a reporter on The Washington Post's obituaries desk, where he has worked since 2015. He covers people who have made a significant impact on their field, city or country — a ...

The safety position has become one of the most valuable in the NFL despite the lack of depth coming into the NFL in recent draft classes. The league itself has done a tremendous job developing the ...

Particularly if they begin to see a drop off in the play of aged veteran, Harrison Smith, who at age 36 is likely staring down the barrel of his final season in the pros. Josh Metellus is a ...

Harrison Smith returning to the starting lineup is a significant boost. His lack of presence was felt last weekend in how organized the Minnesota Vikings defense appeared. The veteran captain has ...