Robert Meeropol is the Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children. He is the younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who in 1953 were executed by the United States Government for “conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb.”
Orphaned at age six, Robert was adopted by the family whose name he [...]

A New Jersey man says having a car accident may have saved his life.
Bryan Rocco has a hunger for fast food, but never thought a Burger King onion ring would almost kill him.
“I was eating my lunch on the road,” Rocco said, adding that he soon found himself “gasping for air.”
It all happened [...]

A man who went missing five weeks ago in south-western France has been found alive in an underground cave system where he had got lost.
Jean-Luc Josuat-Verges, 48, told police he survived by eating wood and clay.
He was found thanks to some teenagers who had been exploring the caves, which are normally closed to the public.
Mr [...]

Can I ask you a personal question?” the old woman asked.
Donald Souza, a eucharistic minister to elderly shut-ins, was taken aback by this question while delivering the sacrament two years ago.
“Sure,” he said after a brief pause.
“Is your son adopted?” the woman asked.
Mr. Souza’s son, David, was now an adult — in his 40s, actually [...]

9/24/1896 - 12/21/1940
American novelist and short story writer
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50 Albrecht Wallenstein
9/24/1583 - 2/25/1634
Bohemian statesman and general in the Thirty Years’ War
46 Johan de Witt
9/24/1625 - 8/20/1672
Dutch statesman and political leader of Holland (1653-72)
79 John Marshall
9/24/1755 - 7/6/1835
American congressman, secretary of state and 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
66 Mark Hanna
9/24/1837 - 2/15/1904
American [...]