A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according to a new study.

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A police standoff with a man said to armed with at least one gun shut down the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site in northwestern North Dakota. Authorities were called to the scene ...

The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633. Six years later, the Dutch and North ...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

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THE COMMUNITY IS ROCKED BY A DIFFICULT REALITY. AFTER LEARNING FROM FAMILY THAT NINE YEAR-OLD LEILANI BROOKS IS BRAIN DEAD. AND TONIGHT, SOME OF LEILANI’S FRIENDS GATHERED TO SHOW, SUPPORT AND ...

Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the 1910s, adding another layer to the pope’s complex family ...