Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw ...

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some ...

Fort Delaware is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was also cited as one of the most haunted places in ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a suit on behalf of two Venezuelan migrants who expect to be deported under ...

Locked up in prison, surrounded by barbed wire.” That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ ...

A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a ...

A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He's since become one of 238 Venezuelan migrants deported ...

When she heard her front door open almost two years ago, Kostiantyn Zinovkin’s mother thought her son had returned home because he forgot something. Instead, men in balaclavas burst into the ...

The Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) rules of engagement in its ongoing war with the Palestinian Hamas movement have ... Abu ...

On Friday, March 14, President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law giving him immense powers to deport ...

It was just a few sentences in a meandering, hourlong presidential speech on a Friday afternoon. Along with talk about ...