The Washington Post

Shipments of Russian natural gas to Europe came to an abrupt halt Wednesday in the middle of a winter cold spell. Russia accused neighboring Ukraine of shutting down pipelines that...

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that it had found at least 15 bodies and several emaciated children in a row of shattered houses in the Gaza...

The word "miracle" can be overused. But when a 6-year-old boy drives a Ford Taurus for more than 10 miles, weaving in and out of oncoming traffic, slams into a...

When it comes to stashing food in the freezer, this much is true: Everybody does it, but not everybody has gotten the hang of it. After all, freezing food properly...

After Saturday, the Obamas of Hyde Park become vagabonds. Fresh from their Hawaiian vacation, they head to Washington and move into the first of two temporary housing spots. The family...

In the Hollywood-as-high-school fantasy of our minds, Katherine Heigl and Kate Hudson giggle in the back of RomCom 101; Anne Hathaway rocks an independent study with Julia Roberts; Charlize and...

Chesapeake Bay's iconic and profitable blue crabs face suffocation, hunger and cannibalism as dead zones continue to expand across the estuary, draining oxygen from the water and killing off enough...

Samuel Huntington, 81, an influential Harvard political scientist whose views on the clash of cultures sparked intellectual clashes of their own, died Dec. 24 on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. His wife,...

When President-elect Barack Obama takes the stage in a few weeks to deliver his inauguration address, no doubt many of the estimated 2 million people expected to gather on the...

They are not religious, so they don't go to church. But they are searching for values and rituals with which to raise their children, as well as a community of...