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Holocaust Museum Boston Installs Restored Railcar in Fourth-Floor Display

The street-facing exhibit lets visitors enter the car, creating a public reminder of lives taken that reinforces the museum’s educational mission.

Burt Meyer, Inventor of Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, Dies at 99

Rachel Maddow Unveils 'Burn Order' Podcast at MS NOW, Debuting Dec. 1

JFK Assassination at 62: Oswald, Ruby and Fresh Records Keep Questions Alive

Eighty Years On, Nuremberg’s Promise Faces a World of Impunity

Ukraine Marks Holodomor as Russia Strikes Border Crossing and U.S. Peace Push Presses Kyiv

Nuremberg at 80: A New Film Rekindles Focus on the Trials’ Legal Legacy

Study Finds Portugal’s State Menus Are Deployed as Tools of Foreign Policy

Channel 4 Genetic Study Says Hitler Likely Had Kallmann Syndrome, Refutes Jewish Ancestry Claim

Hitler DNA Sequencing Indicates Kallmann Syndrome, No Jewish Ancestry

Energy Officials Urge Trump to Avoid Explosive Nuclear Tests After Restart Order

Roundabout’s ‘Archduke’ Opens Off-Broadway to Cool Early Reviews

Viral ‘Fedora Man’ at the Louvre Identified as 15-Year-Old Bystander

Steinmeier Warns German Democracy Faces Greatest Threat Since Berlin Wall's Fall

Kristallnacht Survivors Mark 87th Anniversary With Stark Warning on Rising Antisemitism

Margaret Atwood Says Real-World Politics, Not the Book Itself, Power 'Handmaid's Tale' Resonance

James D. Watson, DNA Double-Helix Co-Discoverer, Dies at 97

James D. Watson, DNA Double-Helix Co-Discoverer, Dies at 97

Jay Stein, Architect of Universal's Theme Parks, Dies

68 Years After Sputnik 2, Laika’s Orbital First Is Remembered and Reassessed