Rebecca Stead's "When You Reach Me" and Jerry Pinkney's "The Lion and the Mouse" have received the top prizes in children's literature. Stead's intricate, time-traveling narrative set in 1970s Manhattan, inspired in part by "A Wrinkle in Time," won the John ...

The reflecting pool cradling the crypt where Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife are buried will be fixed by Thursday, which would have been the couple's 56th wedding anniversary. Nearly 40 volunteers have helped repair visible leaks and repainting the pool and retaining wall over the ...

Martin Luther King III paid tribute to India's pacifist icon Mohandas Gandhi on Sunday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his father's pilgrimage to the country to study nonviolence. "This is a moment I will remember all my life," King said after laying a ...