Bobbye Pratt, who spent 16 years as a news researcher on The Washington Post’s Metro Desk ... correction A previous version of this obituary incorrectly said that Mrs. Pratt's stepfather ...

correction A previous version of this obituary gave an incorrect name of an organization of nurse practitioners. It is the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, not the American Academy of ...

“It’s a real win for women to have all access to emergency contraception,” she told The Washington Post. “It’s also a big win for the FDA,” she continued, adding, “I think it’s ...

The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer strangeness of people’s lives.

Gyalo Thondup, the elder brother of the Dalai Lama who helped the CIA mount an ill-fated armed uprising against the Communist Chinese occupation of Tibet in the 1950s and later spent decades as a ...

Harry Stewart Jr., who flew 43 missions over Europe as a fighter pilot and was among the last surviving combat veterans of the Tuskegee Airmen, an all-Black squadron in the segregated U.S ...

Emily Langer has been a reporter on The Washington Post’s obituaries desk since 2011. She previously worked for the Outlook and Local Living sections. Before joining The Post in 2007 ...

Mauro Morandi was born in Modena on Feb. 12, 1939, the New York Times reported in an obituary. He described himself to CNN as a “rebellious child” and said that he ran away from home for the ...

“Funes was especially attractive for the FMNL because he had not been a combatant and instead represented a fully civilian alternative,” Flores-Macías told The Washington Post. “Funes saw ...