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Robert D. Kaplan said that Gaza's dense population and Hamas' vast underground tunnels will pose more challenges than the Marines faced in Fallujah.

Cities are claustrophobic, casualty-heavy places in which to fight – we speak to those who have experienced the horror of it first-hand

The horror of urban warfare, of the type looming in Gaza, holds a unique grip on the imagination. Images from Stalingrad and Hue City and Fallujah, and more recently from Bakhmut and Mariupol, are etched on the popular memory: desperate men fighting building to building through bombed-out streets, where peril might lurk in every window and around every corner.

On Oct. 17, 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries declared an oil embargo on countries supporting Israel in its war with Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

The Panthers vs. Dolphins game happens early Sunday afternoon. Read here for insights and a prediction.

Students and teachers gathered here this week for a bittersweet conversation with the family of a fallen Marine who became the namesake of a guided-missile destroyer.

A small command-line program that plays typewriter sounds every time you press a computer key. Does Google alter user search queries to generate more revenue? Scarecrow Video is keeping physical media alive. Slovenia’s beautiful, illustrated beehives. Social media app Mastodon will now run on an Apple II. A sleeping pod designed to let you nap vertically, which is apparently a good thing. What ever happened to hood ornaments? The standard cosmological model is saved! All that and more in WhatT...

A photo restorer has used the latest colorization technique to breathe fresh life into photos taken over a hundred years ago.

Do you know the difference between accuracy vs precision? One is about hitting your mark, the other is about tiny groups. Here's the lowdown.