William Wan

The lightning fried Amber Escudero-Kontostathis’s nerves, melted her skin and stopped her heart. But the lone survivor tells herself, “I’m the lucky one.”

Chloe Stevens struggled with suicidal thoughts after her brother’s death. She uses an overnight suicide prevention walk to turn her pain into purpose.

Rockville native and Israeli reservist Omer Balva ‘brought a lot of light to the world.’

“Panda diplomacy” gave the United States its first giant pandas in 1972. But China’s changing priorities will soon deprive U.S. panda fans of their beloved bears.

Teffiney Worthy had heard about a rash of dognappings in D.C., crimes that had targeted French bulldogs like hers. She planned what she would do if it happened to her. Then, on Saturday, it did.

Three days after her puppy was stolen in robbery in front of her D.C. apartment, Teffiney Worthy was reunited Tuesday with her French Bulldog at a police station.

More than 600,000 people are released from America’s prisons every year, vowing never to go back. Many do. One man is trying to change that, one car ride at a time.

The data belongs to more than 400 former congressional staffers and others with connections to decades-old investigations.

The Trump administration rushed to mitigate harm from the errant release of more than 400 Social Security numbers and other private information in files on JFK.

The suicide of a 13-year-old from Washington state set off a years-long global investigation to find an elusive online user called “White Tiger.”