He had overseen high-profile cases as a private lawyer and a U.S. attorney in New York when he was named to examine the role ...

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a ...

Influential up and down the Eastern Seaboard, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting ...

Dignitas has helped more than 3,000 people take their own lives, an act that Mr. Minelli maintained was a fundamental ...

The author of novels, histories, biographies and influential political essays, he approached them all with a droll British ...

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force ...

He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the “mysterious emotional tensions” in his ...

The Liverpool head coach is revered in Rotterdam after success at Feyenoord - and surprise at his problems this season at ...

She won two world titles and six Canadian national championships, and was also a television anchor, reporter and commentator.

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades ...