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Ira M. Millstein, a respected lawyer who crusaded for greater independence from corporate boards, invoked his bipartisanship in helping shepherd…

After being paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow…

Shafiqah Hudson was job hunting in early June 2014, switching between Twitter and email, when she noticed a strange hashtag…

Ulysses, the American robotic spacecraft that landed on the moon last week, is likely to die in the next day…

Claude Montana, the bold and haunting French designer whose exquisite couture defined the edgy look of the 1980s – an…

William Beecher, who as a reporter for the New York Times exposed President Richard M. Nixon’s secret bombing campaign in…

An Alaska man died last month from Alaskapox, a rare virus that occurs mostly in small mammals and can cause…

Bob Edwards, NPR’s “Morning Edition” host for nearly a quarter century, whose rich baritone and cool demeanor infused his radio…

Before he was known as the father of artificial Christmas trees, Si Spiegel was a brave army aviator. In the…

Clyde Taylor, a scholar who in the 1970s and 80s played a leading role in identifying, defining and promoting black…