In Anniston, Ala., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is training health providers who will be going to West Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak.
A CDC medical officer demonstrates the correct procedure for health-care workers to put on protective equipment. He is using the protocol recommended by Doctors Without Borders to prevent being inf...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and everywhere you look you see pink-ribbon products. But how much of that money actually goes toward finding a cure?
Long marked as a contentious holiday, these cities and states have either replaced Columbus Day with another holiday, or just treat it as a regular Monday.
Halloween can sometimes be a little too spooky for some of our youngest trick-or-treaters. Here are some tips on how to make the holiday a little less scary, but still fun.
Victor Adesanya speaks to The Washington Post of his son's struggles with mental illness and his hope that he will receive treatment. Authorities said they apprehended Dominic Adesanya after he sca...
As fall colors make their way into the D.C. area, we'll have a lot of sun — and a bit of wind — this weekend. Capital Weather Gang's Angela Fritz has your forecast.
Post White House correspondent Katie Zezima explains the White House's decision to appoint former Obama administration official Ron Klain to coordinate its efforts on Ebola.
On Thursday night, parents, students and members of the Jefferson County, Colorado community railed against the conservative majority school board, which sought to review and revise the AP U.S. His...
As the president pro tempore, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has a different view of the world than most people—but few in his position have ever attempted to share such a unique vantage point with the...
As the war against the Islamic State expands with airstrikes in Syria, here's what senior national security correspondent Karen DeYoung, national security reporter Greg Miller, White House correspo...
Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes shoots skeet in a new ad. The Fix's Chris Cillizza and Act Four's Alyssa Rosenberg weigh in on the messaging behind it.