Since 2004, Tammy Duckworth has lost her legs, lost her father and lost an election. Now she is losing her husband.
An Iraq war veteran, Ms. Duckworth ran in Illinois as a Democrat during the Congressional mid-term elections last fall. She lost by fewer than 5,000 votes.
During the campaign, she became a powerful symbol of the [...]

My mother and father took great pains to ensure I had an appreciation of God’s word. But my childhood, during which I was scarred by a sibling’s abuse, caused me to doubt my faith. That doubt would disappear when tragedy struck at the age of 25.
On April 9, 1991, I was a passenger on a [...]

It has been almost 16 years since the fateful night that forever changed the life of Rico Hoye, and some of the events have been blurred by the passage of time.
He was only 16 at the time, a pretty fair amateur boxer from Detroit with 68 victories in 80 bouts, who appeared on track to [...]

The survival of a Pembrokeshire fisherman who swam almost four miles (6.4km) after his boat sank is an “incredible story”, coastguards say.
Douglas Hook, 31, was found suffering from hypothermia on Pendine Sands in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Coastguard Dave Miller said Mr Hook had clung to a lifebuoy for several hours after his trawler [...]

The Conservative victory in the 1970 election was far from inevitable. The Tories entered the campaign trailing Labour in the opinion polls. Prime Minister Harold Wilson didn’t need to call an election until April 1971, but he feared that the tide was turning away from the Labour Party and, with decimalisation happening in January 1971, [...]