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Eva Kitlen, 14, of Niwot, Colorado spells "kleptocrat" during the semi-final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, May 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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** FILE ** Rex W. Tillerson is chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp. (AP Photo/Mike Stone)

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"Private Roy Humphrey is being given blood plasma by Pfc. Harvey White, after he was wounded by shrapnel, on 9 August 1943 in Sicily." (U.S. National Archives)

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Dr. Lewis Yocum, renowned orthopedic surgeon who worked with Washington Nationals pitchers Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann, among many others, has died at age 66. (Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic)

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A study at Brigham Young University found that babies who sleep with bottles are 30 percent more likely to be obese by the time they're toddlers. (Associated Press)

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Full-page newspaper ads paid for by Dish Network, which wants to buy Sprint, liken the risks of a Sprint merger with Japanese company SoftBank to the 2006 effort by a company linked to the government of Dubai to run U.S. ports.

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The forest people in “Epic” are daily combatants in a cosmic (or perhaps epic?) struggle between the forces of light and the forces of decay.

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A baby is fed by her mother at the teen pregnancy program offered at the Upper Cordoza Clinic in Washington in 2003. (The Washington Times/File)