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People in the U.S. and abroad take time to honor military veterans during the annual holiday.
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Mourners at a memorial service at Fort Hood remember the victims of a mass shooting that left 13 dead and 37 wounded.
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An Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire Thursday in a crowded medical building at Fort Hood, Tex., killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens more.
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The expansion of global trade may enrich the U.S., but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The region has lost more of its jobs to international competition than just about anywhere else in the nation, according to federal trade assistance statistics.
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Swat teams and ambulances descended on the 16-story Gateway Center after multiple people were shot at the highrise office building.
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NASA launched its tallest rocket, 327 feet high, on Oct. 28. The Ares I-X is a test rocket for the Ares I, which is being designed to replace the aging space shuttle.
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The Solar Decathlon this year has teams representing the U.S., Canada, Germany and Spain, providing a unique opportunity to see cutting-edge architecture and technology displayed on the Mall.
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Some farmers are using confined animal feeding operations to prevent the spread of swine flu, and other illnesses, between pigs and humans. But is that enough?
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Twenty teams of students worked around the clock to finish prototype solar houses on the national mall.
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Thunderstorms unleashed floods in parts of Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia leaving at least nine people dead.
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Leaders join families of victims to mark the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Orangeburg, S.C., lies at the heart of the Old South, a working-class, well-educated city where the burden of race still hovers over the sleepy historic downtown.
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Six high schools across the country are debuting a new curriculum in history and social studies classes that incorporate facts and stories of September 11. One of the victim's brothers created the curriculum to honor everyone who died in the attacks.
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New images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope allow astronomers to glimpse celestial objects never seen before in great detail.
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President Barack Obama challenged students to develop their skills and take responsibility for their education during a speech broadcasted to classrooms across the country.
Half a Tank: Along Recession Road
A multimedia blog about Americans adapting to the recession.
A multimedia blog about Americans adapting to the recession.
Fashion Week
INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.
INTERACTIVE | Sights and sounds from the spring 2009 collections in New York.
Careless Detention
An investigative series by Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein that details the poor medical care provided to immigration detainees being held in scores of facilities across the United States.
An investigative series by Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein that details the poor medical care provided to immigration detainees being held in scores of facilities across the United States.
MULTIMEDIA: In Mining Country, Drugs Cut a Swath - Rising coal prices have meant jobs and money for Southwestern Virginia's mining towns. But a dark cloud hangs over those communities too: prescription painkiller abuse.
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A New Home Away From Home
During a day-long move involving the transfer of 79 inpatients, Children's National Medical Center unveiled a glossy new $75 million inpatient wing designed to make hospitalization more homelike.
During a day-long move involving the transfer of 79 inpatients, Children's National Medical Center unveiled a glossy new $75 million inpatient wing designed to make hospitalization more homelike.
MULTIMEDIA:This series of audio slideshows conjures a spirit of fun and competition and remind us not to take ourselves too seriously.
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MULTIMEDIA: As the presidential primaries near, voters agonize over a prolonged war. Videojournalist Travis Fox traveled to New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina to document the conflicting views on the war.
MULTIMEDIA: The Tools of a Wireless War
- The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems is a ligther, faster and more agile force that consists of 14 weapons, robots, sensors, drones and combat hybrid-electric vehicles all connected by a wireless network that will be used on tomorrow's battlefield.
A selection of the best images by Post photographers this year.
Featuring the best work by multimedia journalists and interactive designers at washingtonpost.com.
Five years after the Taliban fled Kabul under the cover of night, signs of fragile but real progress abound. Simple pleasures once prohibited -- song and dance, the flutter of kites -- have resumed. And for the first time, women and girls once repressed under Taliban rule are able to take better control of their lives and their futures.
The Aswan High Dam is the starting point for a 690-mile journey along the river, through Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.
Alberto Korda was born Alberto Diaz Gutierrez in Havana in 1928, the same year as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Korda captured the celebrated photograph of Che during his work as personal photographer to Fidel Castro. In the book 'Cuba by Korda,' available Sept. 15, 2006, rare photos of Fidel Castro and Guevara, as well as the stories behind the photographs.
In the 25 years of the epidemic, treatment has improved, but the issues of social isolation, and, often, economic instability remain.