World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth defending.

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 ...

Spokeo examined the history of identification and its evolution throughout the centuries, from seals to biometrics.

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

An essay by Patrick O’Donoghue on the situation in St. Cloud, Minnesota (USA) following a knife attack by an African ...

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known ...

Mark Felt admitted that, while No. 2 man in the FBI, he was "Deep Throat," the shadowy contact whose help to Washington Post ...

Stories Behind the Stars founder says the pace of stories being written has doubled since 2000 but the group still needs more ...

From the trenches of the World Wars to the scheming royal courts, from the perspectives of ordinary citizens to towering ...

A dual U.S.-German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the U.S. Embassy ...