Independence Day is about U.S. history. Specifically, when this land became the United States, which is a great story. Truth is usually stranger, and more interesting, than fiction, and in the 249 ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

A judge ordered the hip-hop producer detained until his sentencing, citing his history of domestic violence. He was found not ...

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations, both at its headquarters in New York and ...

As the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, it might take a moment -- or more -- to remember why.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Adam Greenfield was home nursing a cold when his girlfriend raced in to tell him Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles were pulling up in their trendy San Diego ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas ...

AP Food rations are halved in one of Africa's largest refugee camps after US aid cuts More than 300,000 refugees in the Kakuma camp in remote Kenya have had their food rations cut in half ...

Summer will make a dramatic entrance in the U.S. this week with a heat dome that will bring stifling temperatures and uncomfortable humidity to millions. The heat will be particularly worrisome thi… ...

U.S. presidents have rarely federalized the National Guard to intervene in protests on U.S. soil.

The June 14 protests were a crucial show of force from working people, plenty of whom had never been to a protest before in their lives but who saw the need for every single one of us to get involved.