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Astronaut Walter Schirra's decision to bring a Swedish-made Hasselblad on his Mercury spaceflight set the course for NASA's choice of the camera for the Apollo lunar program.

The Stonewall Inn is a sacred place for many in the LGBTQ community. In 1969, a raid and series of riots outside the New York City bar helped launch a civil rights movement.

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

We spoke to teen activists at the Girl Up event in Washington, D.C., this week. They had a lot to say about everything from buzzwords that make them mad to the best ways to de-stress.

To answer that question, the U.N. has just named a security expert as its "emergency Ebola coordinator." What's his take?

The municipal cemetery in Lares, Puerto Rico, has been closed since Hurricane Maria hit. Residents flocked to visit when a portion of the cemetery was opened for Mother's Day, but many were unable to reach their loved ones' graves.

President Trump is in Japan this weekend, the latest country to try to get in his good graces with a good show.

The city of New Orleans is on a first-name basis with Quint Davis, who has happily occupied a central role in the city's beloved Jazz and Heritage Festival since the very beginning.

Sanura Begum fled Myanmar and now lives in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. Could she ever return to the wooden farmhouse she left behind? Only God knows, she says.

One day after a major earthquake hit the island, killing at least 10 people and leaving dozens missing, another sizable temblor rattled rescue workers who were seeking survivors in amid the rubble.