It’s not the constant time and attention he needs. That’s not hard for Gail Owens, although she’s on her own, a single mother, trying to keep a job despite frequent absences to care for her son.
Or helping him upstairs because he can’t breathe, rubbing his swollen legs at night, getting him his medication, taking him [...]

Two months ago, Karen S. Morris said, “I could not have dreamed this big.”
Since then, her dreams have exploded to unimagined dimensions.
On May 28, Morris, 44, will become the first grandmother to graduate from Yale Medical School. Last month, she married William Priester, a police sergeant from Windsor, Conn.
That kind of excitement is hard to [...]

A comet or some other extraterrestrial object appears to have slammed into northern Canada 12,900 years ago and triggered an abrupt and catastrophic climate change that wiped out the mammoths and many other prehistoric creatures, according to a team of U.S. scientists.
Evidence of the ecological disaster exists in a thin layer of sediment that has [...]

On May 14, 1948, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed as British rule in Palestine came to an end. (Go to article.)
1787 Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution.
1796 English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox.
1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the [...]