Mary Keller

Madeleine Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague in 1937. When Nazi Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, her family fled. She was just a child when they escaped to London. At the time, she did not fully understand what they were leaving behind. Decades later, she learned that three of her grandparents had been

It was a bitterly cold afternoon in Syracuse when a police officer noticed something that made him slow down. A woman was carefully climbing a hill, step by step, balancing a heavy cardboard box on her head. She would walk a few feet, stop to catch her breath, then continue again. Her movements were slow

Fear and heartbreak continue to deepen for the family of television anchor Savannah Guthrie as concern grows over the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy. Authorities are working urgently to determine what happened after Nancy was last seen over the weekend. Investigators have confirmed that she was last known to be at a family gathering,

For one Utah father, the past several weeks have been defined by fear, uncertainty, and an exhausting fight to bring his children home. Late last year, his world was turned upside down when the mother of his children took their three kids overseas without his permission. Suddenly, they were gone. No clear location. No way

Judy-Lynn del Rey stood just four feet tall, but in the world of science fiction and fantasy publishing, she was a towering figure. Born Judy-Lynn Benjamin in 1943, she entered the publishing industry at a time when science fiction was still fighting for mainstream respect. The genre was often dismissed as niche or juvenile. Del

In the summer of 1969, Mary Stolze went on her first date with a man named George. It was July 4th. Seventy days later, they were married. There was no long engagement, no elaborate planning. Both were serving in the U.S. Army. Both understood that time was uncertain. The Vietnam War was escalating, and orders

Sarah Grimké was born in 1792 into one of the wealthiest slaveholding families in South Carolina. Her father was a judge. Her upbringing was comfortable, refined, and built on the labor of enslaved people. She was expected to defend that system. Instead, she questioned it. As a child, Sarah witnessed the violence and control that

In January 1945, near the town of Houssen, France, First Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner made a decision few soldiers could imagine. German forces were advancing. His unit, part of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, was under heavy attack. Conner had already been wounded multiple times earlier in the war. That day, he was again hit

Police in Utrecht, Netherlands, recently found themselves handling a case they definitely don’t teach in the academy — one involving a very colorful, very innocent bird. Officers had arrested a man on suspicion of shoplifting. Sitting calmly on his shoulder during the arrest was his feathered companion, completely unaware that anything unusual was happening. While

A quiet winter outing in upstate New York turned into an unimaginable tragedy — and an act of pure, selfless love. Thirty-three-year-old Bryan P. LaPlante was ice fishing on Chaumont Pond with his 6-year-old son and a 48-year-old family friend when disaster struck. What should have been a calm day on the ice ended in