4+ hour, 21+ min ago  (799+ words) For decades, the fierce desert wind has been the only thing moving with any speed at the former Minidoka, Idaho, internment camp, other than an occasional car passing the site where more than 13, 000 Japanese Americans were held behind barbed wire…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1030+ words) Norman Bussel, who survived the destruction of his B-17 bomber during an air raid over Berlin in 1944, endured a year in a German prisoner-of-war camp and, after retirement, spoke and wrote extensively about the underappreciated trauma experienced by the soldiers, sailors…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1495+ words) Canada's military ambitions in the Arctic hinged on a frozen door that wouldn't open. Hundreds of troops landing on an island in the High Arctic last month were confronted with wind chill temperatures of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit, frigid even by…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (930+ words) His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by Barry Frechette, a filmmaker who directed "Paper Lanterns," a 2016 documentary about Mr. Mori's research. Mr. Mori was an 8-year-old student on his way to school in Hiroshima when, at 8: 15 a. m. on Aug. 6, 1945, an…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1162+ words) On his first day home after nearly four years in Russian captivity, Nazar Daletskyi took a walk to his village's small cemetery in western Ukraine. There, he gazed down at his own grave. Weeks before, Mr. Daletskyi and dozens of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (914+ words) J'rgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday in Starnberg, Germany, southwest of Munich. He was 96. His publisher, Suhrkamp, confirmed the death. For over half…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (213+ words) Worse, Donald Trump is now pointing to these missions as if the excellence with which they have been conducted somehow constitutes a strategy in itself. He appears so enthralled by the execution of these missions that he has enlarged the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (446+ words) This story appeared in'Today, Explained,'a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day.'Subscribe here. Finland made international news earlier this month for a disappointing near miss: Its men's hockey team looked…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1070+ words) For the past month or so, I've been writing about the abysmal conditions in ICE detention centers. Last week, I argued that you could use the term "concentration camp" to describe the system the Trump administration is using to seize…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (746+ words) The Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is so large that it couldn't fit into the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's flagship location on the National Mall in…...