President Joe Biden issued a proclamation to recognize Oct. 14 as Columbus Day in honor of Christopher Columbus, the ...

The Cavalieri Bolla Pontificia, musicians who marched down Main Street in Huntington village wearing medieval ceremonial ...

New York City's annual Columbus Day Parade returns on Monday, which means street closures in Midtown Manhattan.

Columbus Day, celebrated on the second Monday of October, holds special significance for the large Italian-American ...

Springfield Sons and Daughters of Italy holding ceremony to honor the explorer Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.

In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a federal holiday at the urging of prominent Italian American ...

Christopher Columbus, whose expeditions changed the course of history, was previously believed to be an Italian from Genoa.

A groundbreaking genetic study led by Spanish scientists has reopened the debate regarding Christopher Columbus’s origins, ...

A Spanish-led genetic study suggests Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish and Jewish, challenging the belief that he was ...

A 20-year DNA study by Spanish scientists suggests Christopher Columbus may have been a Spanish and Jewish, born in Valencia ...

Spanish scientists believe he was born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Western Europe and converted to Catholicism.

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, ...