According to data from the Drug Policy Alliance, the United States government spends $39 billion each year on the war on ...

Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire, exchanging hostages and prisoners, as the conflict's broader implications unfold in ...

Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919 offers a bizarre, if grim, annual reminder of a freak accident in the city's North End. And one researcher suggests that looking back at the waterfront incident ...

The long-abanonded,1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

Another crucial but less high-profile role for the secretary of state is protecting U.S. citizens abroad. The State ...

U.S. presidential election, the Democrats joined a slew of governments voted out in the past year in the wake of high ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.

The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan for the genocide of ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...