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The origins of Memorial Day and how it has evolved

Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that is officially about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it has come to signal the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of travel, as well as discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers. This year, the occasion comes amid ...

Photo of the Day: Artists of the loom

AP Photo American textile designer and weaver Dorothy Wright Liebes of San Francisco, whose designing and weaving has won her wide acclaim, is pictured at her hand loom in her San Francisco studio, May 26, 1947. With her are May Gunn, left, and Louise Fong, both weavers at the Liebes studio. ...