Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

It was an opening salvo in what is likely to be the decisive legal battle over the president’s attempts to employ the rarely ...

Ethiopian rebels seized the presidential palace and tightened their control of the capital of Addis Ababa, effectively ending ...

California justifiably takes a lot of heat these days. But Californians got this one right. We honor their sacrifice.

Texas has become ground zero in a GOP battle over energy, pitting a suburban populist right that seeks to throttle the ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen troops. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of ...

It's not positive, and they're not exactly wrong. In a new report, the Texas Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers has given the infrastructure in the state of Texas a grade of "C ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

The first national observance of what was then called Decoration Day occurred on May 30, 1868, after an organization of Union ...

State and federal governments have moved to criminalize trans people, parents of trans children, and healthcare providers.

Iraq War veteran Edmundo Eugenio Martinez Jr. said the day has lost so much meaning that many Americans “conflate and mix up Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, July Fourth.” ...