‘These are working cats’: Meet the feral felines tasked with hunting rodents
My friends call me the rat killer," says Ralph Brabham, standing in his spacious backyard in Washington, D.C., on a sunny day in August. Brabham is a gentle man who...
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How to talk to your kids about money when you don’t have a traditional job
Shyloh Hadley owns a Pittsburgh salon, Hair by Shyloh. Her son's father is also self-employed, running Flower City Printmakers. With two parents in unsalaried positions, 5-year-old Shark is learning to...
How to tell whether a prospective employer is actually ‘family-friendly’
The promise of having it all led Al, a father in suburban New Jersey, to leave a high-pressure career at a New York City talent management agency to work as...
Once protected by ice, Canada’s crumbling islands face disaster
ILES-DE-LA-MADELEINE, Quebec - The more than 12,000 residents of this windswept Canadian archipelago are facing a growing number of gut-wrenching choices, as extreme climate change transforms the land and water...
Here’s a tax break that is available only to people over 70
Getting to be a septuagenarian occasionally has its uses. It turns out that if you're more than 70 years old and have the right kind of retirement accounts, you can...
‘It’s night and day’: New radar allows scientists to peer inside California wildfires like never before
California has been caught in the midst of a fiery assault fueled by historically powerful winds, humidity levels stuck in the single digits, and the effects of long-term climate change....
The exploitation of the Dionne quintuplets: Girls were raised in a ‘baby zoo’ and shown off at 1933 Chicago World’s Fair
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe started spreading the news right after he helped to deliver five identical girls in a farmhouse in Corbeil, Canada, on the morning of May 28, 1934....
Sean Doolittle on declining the White House invite: ‘I don’t want to hang out with somebody who talks like that’
Ever since Sean Doolittle was traded to the Washington Nationals in the summer of 2017, the reliever was often asked whether he would visit the White House after winning the...
Commentary: How I uncovered a dozen new Lou Reed songs
With Lou Reed's wavering tenor and jangling guitar ringing in my ears, I stared down at the cassette tape in my hand. Was it possible I had really discovered an...
Dogs trained in prison change veterans’ lives
CUMBERLAND, Md. - Last year, Al Moore was gulping down a dozen medications to cope with physical pain and sometimes crippling post-traumatic stress disorder that he developed during 30 years...