Gov. Mark Dayton was not the only person to speak at the inaugural address at Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul on Monday. The following excerpt is ...

Karl Ferdinand Braun invented this technology in 1897 ... released alongside the first DVD players in Japan, while "Twister" was the first DVD commercially available in the U.S. a few months ...

John Whitaker said his grandfather was initially "confused" when he heard what sounded like a 911 operator soon realized what ...

Cleveland’s Garrett Morgan did. His 1923 design improved road safety, and his legacy still impacts drivers globally today.

Upon Vitullo’s death in 2006, Kennedy writes, “an obituary in a local paper celebrated him as the ‘man who invented the rape kit.’” Every one of these backstories carries its own ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

The inventor Otis Frank Boykin, known for inventing the wire precision resistor, was born on August 29, 1920 in Dallas, Texas ...

Lady Vols basketball coach Kim Caldwell did not travel to Tennessee's road matchup with Texas due to giving birth to her first child. Assistant coach Jenna Burdette will handle head coaching ...

Mr. MacLachlan is an actor and was a longtime collaborator with David Lynch. No, I didn’t always understand what we were making. Sometimes I’d get a sense of it, and then like on a breeze, it ...