On October 8, 1945, Spencer and the team filed for a patent on the technology. It was approved in January 1950, and Raytheon began manufacturing the commercial microwave oven, called “Radarange.” ...

Caring for my aging father taught me about the massive holes in America’s safety net for the elderly.

Ariel Dorfman is the Chilean American author of the play “Death and the Maiden” and many books, including the novel “The ...

Once the Wright Brothers had invented a practical and consistently flyable machine (what we now call an airplane) in 1903, ...

The measure now goes to the group’s elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organization’s 10,000-plus ...

Donald Trump ran on a return to his "America First” foreign policy platform. The U.S., he said, could no longer afford to be ...

An Italian immigrant named Hector Boiardi invented it, but the U.S. Military canned pasta and tomato sauce into what it is ...

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Garland was given the difficult task of creating the format for an Anzac Day service that various religious, military, government, business and community groups would all want to participate in. He ...

The 6888th US battalion tackled entrenched racism as well as confronting the challenges of sexism in the military – but the ...

How unions and the military frame the role of immigrants within their institutions and help influence attitudes in U.S.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ...