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ISIL (formerly ISIS) militants parade through the then-occupied city of Mosul. Read more about ISIL in our timeline.Some issues are too big to tackle in our brief news updates. That's why the editors…

The True George Washington: Physique

PhysiqueContemporary DescriptionsWriting to his London tailor for clothes, in 1763, Washington directed him to "take measure of a gentleman who wares well-made cloaths of the following size:…

2014 U.S. News

Major National News Stories of 2014 Ferguson Protests Related Links 2014 Year in Review 2014 News of the World Science News of 2014 2014 People in the News 2014 Places in…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 18, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 17, 1806March 19, 1806March 18, 1806 Tuesday March 18th 1806. Drewyer was taken last night with a violent pain in his side. Capt. Clark…

Li Shaomin, 2001 News

U.S.-based Chinese scholars, were convicted in July of spying for Taiwan in a Beijing court and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In a related case, Li Shaomin, a naturalized U.S. citizen who…

Radovan Karadzic Biography

former Bosnian leaderBest Known as: Bosnian Serb president in the 1990s Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb president during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s, was…

Slobodan Milosevic, 1999 News

57, president of Yugoslavia, balked at repeated warnings from NATO to withdraw Yugoslav troops and weapons from Albanian-dominated Kosovo, which had been fighting for full independence from…