The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.

President Trump admires one of his long-forgotten predecessors. He has resurrected the memory of President William McKinley, whose term bridged the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the ...

Gold is up $31 this morning, and Silver is up 59-cents! There must be a double helix in the sky tonight, throw out the hardware let's do this right! (Steely Dan, from Aja). The price of Oil remained ...

Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known. As a biographer of Tubman, I think this is a shame. Her devotion ...

America has waited decades for the full release of documents relating to the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK. That wait may soon be over.

Did you know that some of the most iconic dishes around the world got their names from a real-life muse? Here are some of the most famous examples.

Georgia Rockefeller Rose. Jim attended Greenwich Country Day School and Deerfield Academy, then served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After graduating from Yale University, where he ...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees called for “rapid, unhindered and uninterrupted humanitarian access” to the strip to relieve the suffering caused by war. Israel will release 735 ...

Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been leading the army during Sudan's 21-month civil war The US government has imposed sanctions on the head of Sudan's army and de facto president, Gen Abdel Fattah ...

Israel and Hamas have been at war in Gaza since October 7, 2023 when the militant group in a surprise attack killed over 1,200 people in Israel and took around 250 people as hostage, according to ...

The war in Ukraine has ground on for nearly three years. From the start, Western allies have stood in solidarity with Kyiv. The US has poured tens of billions in military aid into the war ...

Syria's nearly 14 years of civil war ended when Assad fled to exile in Russia last month, but piecing together the shattered country will be a massive, long-term project. More than half of Syria's ...