In September 1857, a government survey expedition crossing the Southwest was running dangerously short of water. Its mules crowded around a small barrel, desperately trying to drink through the opening. The camels kept browsing. The leader of the expedition, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, saw this contrast as the perfect reason that…

The U.S. Senate blocked a measure Sept. 29 that would have required the State Department to account for the deaths of nine Americans in the West Bank. The 47-51 procedural vote stopped a resolution seeking information about killings attributed to Israeli security forces or settlers. Senators declined to advance a…

Jason Thomas had already left the Marine Corps when the first plane hit. He had a newborn daughter in a car seat, a new house on Long Island, and a criminal justice class waiting for him at John Jay College in Manhattan. His camouflage utilities were in the trunk of…

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