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On the day Mary Sara died of tuberculosis in a Seattle sanitarium, the doctor caring for the 18-year-old offered her brain to one of the most revered museums in the world. A photo of Mary Sara arriving in Seattle in 1933. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 17, 1933) The young woman —…

August 14, 2023 at 1:00 a.m. EDT Egyptian security forces moved to clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Rabaa Square in Cairo on Aug. 14, 2013. (Video: Mosa’ab Elshamy via Storyful) Comment on this storyComment CAIRO — For survivors of the Rabaa al-Adawiya Square crackdown,…

Russian shelling killed seven people in Ukraine’s Kherson region Sunday, including four members of the same family, one of whom was a 3-week-old infant, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. The baby girl’s 12-year-old brother and their parents were also killed. The boy was initially recovered alive but later died at…

Illia Mykhalchuk, a Ukrainian soldier who lost both arms as a Wagner prisoner of war, photographed in Silver Spring, MD. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) Russian mercenaries captured Ilia Mykhalchuk outside Bakhmut. They amputated his arms in a dark basement, he says, and subjected him to mind-bending psychological abuse. August 13,…

August 13, 2023 at 4:00 a.m. EDT Wolves are once again flourishing in Germany, now home to as many as 161 packs, or about 1,300 of the large canines. But not everyone is happy. (Video: Gerd Jahnke) Comment on this storyComment LÜNEBURG HEATH, Germany — At first Nancy Denecke couldn’t…

Comment on this storyComment RIGA, Latvia — When classes begin next month, Russian high-schoolers will get fresh history textbooks rewritten to carry Kremlin-approved narratives about the “special military operation” in Ukraine and the rivalry with the West — part of a wider government effort to shape how young generations of…

ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE – AUGUST 11: A hole left by missile near a hotel. (Photo by Elena Tita/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images) SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Political and Military Affairs released a breakdown last month of the more than $44 billion in security assistance that…

Comment on this storyComment In the amateur drone footage captured that day, a grisly scene unfolded atop one of the world’s most unforgiving peaks. It was July 27 and mountaineers, determined to reach the K2 summit in Pakistan, are shown stepping over the prostrate body of Muhammad Hassan, a local…