At the start of the 1980s there were more than a million elephants in Africa. During that decade, 600,000 were destroyed for ivory products. Today perhaps no more than 400,000 remain across the continent, according to Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington, who is widely recognized as an authority on the subject.
A Pennsylvania city known for its cheesesteaks, sports fans and Colonial history now has something else it can boast: a poet laureate.
Voices recorded by inventor Alexander Graham Bell more than 125 years ago are being heard now, thanks to digital imaging technology.
The king of Saudi Arabia has opened the door to greater participation by women in future municipal elections.
It's an empirical fact: There are people out there who hate you.
Ah, 2011. A new year and a prime time to make resolutions -- a word that stems from the Latin word resolutio, which roughly translates to "intense self-flagellation followed by structured reflection on the things you hate about yourself."
Remember how we were all freaking out on New Year's Eve, 1999, convinced that the world as we know it would end -- at the hands of machines, of course?
Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez died Saturday in Miami, Florida, state-run media and CNN affiliate Globovision reported.
"Equal Justice Under Law" -- the words symbolize the American heritage of democracy and the rule of law.
Kate Bolduan takes a rare peek at what lies behind the walls of the Supreme Court.
Unauthorized federal workers and contractors have been warned not to attempt to read the classified documents on WikiLeaks on either government or personal computers.
Digitally preserved copies of 10 silent films previously thought to be lost forever are now at the Library of Congress.
There weren't any starlets or red carpet, but the Library of Congress had a blockbuster day at the movies on Thursday.
How are fads started and spread? Do certain influential people play a key role, or is it truly random? How does a trend go from new and exciting to old and passe so quickly? Does having happy friends have an effect on our own happiness?
In June, Bill Gates sounded off on the recession, Facebook, Twitter and the risks involved with social networking sites.
So you've had your heart ripped from your chest -- the left ventricle cleaved from the right. The aorta geysering blood across your bedroom floor, on which you are currently sprawled.
Paul McCartney wins the Gershwin Prize, then discusses the backstory behind some of the songs he likes performing.
A long and winding road brought Sir Paul McCartney to the White House on Wednesday, where he was honored by the president of the United States and performed some of the most famous songs from his catalogue with the Beatles and after.
Web sites come and go, but the short bursts of text you publish on one Web site in particular -- Twitter.com --may end up having a longer shelf life than the company itself. The Library of Congress announced this week that it will archive the billions of tweets published since Twitter launched in March 2006.
Every 140-character snippet of info you've ever shared publicly on Twitter will soon have a home next to the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Twitterverse's reaction to the Lehman Brothers collapse? President Obama's election? Now you won't have to wonder.
Cisco unveiled a new Internet technology Tuesday that it says will provide the ultra-fast data speeds necessary to stay ahead of users' rapidly growing online video demands.
It is hard to believe that it has been an entire year since Jason Chaffetz and I undertook a project with CNN to chronicle, in video and in prose, our first year. Both of us have grown a lot along the way and learned many lessons, and I hope that our readers and viewers have a notion, as we now do, of what it is like to serve in Congress.
Senators question Defense Secretary Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mullen on repealing the controversial policy.
When I first joined the Navy, I had no idea that I was gay. I was well into my career when I realized this fact, but I was doing well as evidenced by the awards and promotions I was receiving.
Michael Jackson's "Thriller," with its unforgettable zombie graveyard dance, has become a national treasure.
Will.i.am and Martina McBride will be among performers at the White House salute
CNN's Don Lemon reports from the Lincoln Memorial as the country celebrates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
From Capitol Hill to Springfield, Illinois, President Obama and Congress paid tribute Thursday to Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birth.
The Library of Congress marks 200 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln on Thursday by opening a special exhibit featuring his handwritten speeches and artifacts, including the Bible used last month by President Obama during his swearing-in.
Use this resource as a brief history of presidential inaugurations and the traditions associated with them.
Patsy Lawson and her husband, Herman, grew up in a patch of Appalachia with "no railroad, no airstrips, just subsistence farming." There she learned from her father -- a "great natural storyteller" -- how to turn everyday events into compelling tales
A former Army commander who underwent a sex change operation was discriminated against by the U.S. government, a federal judge ruled Friday in an important victory for transgenders claiming bias in the workplace.
A transsexual who was not hired by the Library of Congress because of an upcoming sex change has won a discrimination lawsuit in federal court
Ex-Special Forces Col. David Schroer was up for a desk job with the U.S. government. But when revealed that he would soon be Diane, he was rejected. Was it sex discrimination?
Capitol Police arrested a man Friday after they found a grenade and several weapons in his car several blocks from the Capitol building
Kay Ryan is the latest pick as the nation's top poet. If her predecessors are any guide, she'll have an exhausting year
The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling
into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will
preserve for their cultural significance
A radio documentarian wants to catalog people's lives simply by listening to them
"Rehab," the autobiographical top 10 single by Amy Winehouse, won best contemporary song Thursday at Britain's prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to make the U.S. Capitol complex more environmentally friendly is being hampered by the reluctance of lawmakers from coal-producing states to implement changes at the complex's coal-burning power plant.
Congressional pages have been in the background on Capitol Hill for 177 years, but the program -- which gives high school students a chance to work closely with lawmakers -- rarely gets much attention unless there's a scandal.
Clay Shirky can be counted among the lucky few who not only appear to have mastered the wired world (and the wireless one) but get paid to decode it for the rest of us. He teaches graduate courses in interactive telecommunications at New York University. He has a busy technology consulting practice whose clients include Nokia and the Library of Congress.
CNNMoney: Life in a saltboxupdated: Fri Jan 20 2006 09:22:00
It must be pretty cool to be able to say that you live in a saltbox. It sounds something like living in a shoe. But just what the heck is a saltbox house anyhow?
Emotions ran high Wednesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee continued to question Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, and the top Democrat cited concern over what he called "inconsistencies" in the judge's testimony.
For a circular piece of foil encased in plastic, it has certainly had a dramatic impact.
It's to be titled the "Al Qaeda Reader." Publisher Doubleday says it will include writings by Osama bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, from the 1990s.
An English translation of interviews with Osama bin Laden and writings by his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri will hit the shelves, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The organist at St. Andrew's Church in Aysgarth, England, played the American national anthem on Sunday to mark the U.S. Independence Day, while not knowing that the "Star Spangled Banner's" music was composed by an Englishman, John Stafford Smith.
As lawyers and court watchers have long suspected, the Supreme Court was ready to effectively overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1992, but Justice Anthony M. Kennedy got cold feet, and the vote went the other way.
At a ceremony Wednesday marking the addition of a Sir Winston Churchill collection to the Library of Congress, President Bush echoed the words of the famous British prime minister, saying the United States is snaring terrorists in a "closing net of doom."
When I was in fourth grade, my class learned about the Constitution. You remember: checks and balances, the Elastic Clause, blah-blah-blah. I had more important things to ponder, like whether to sp...
In December, Taschen, publisher of art reference books, will print 2,500 limited-edition copies of the second-largest, perhaps the most expensive, and probably the heaviest book ever published.
Politics today reflects George Wallace's taunt of three decades ago: "There ain't a dime's worth of difference between the major parties." Last year Republicans in Congress teamed up with Democrats...
REAL ESTATE Q. My parents bought a second house 15 years ago for $18,000. The house is now worth $140,000, and my parents recently paid off the mortgage. They want to transfer the deed to my sister...
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge ruled that the Library of Congress was denying equal access to blind people by eliminating Braille issues of Playboy from its shelves . . . U.S. District Judge Tom Hog...
AMID THE DIN of congressional budget making, a startling development has slipped by virtually unnoticed. Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, Congress's new law aimed at eliminating federal deficits, is beginnin...
IF YOU ARE among the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have recently begun using ''on-line databases,'' you doubtless have a strong sense of doing something futuristic. The explosion of these ...
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