More than 80 years later, officials, veterans and civil rights groups, are urging Congress to award World War II hero Dorie ...

In a world before instant messaging, letters bridged even the deepest ideological divides. From Gandhi writing to Hitler, to Marx and Lincoln exchanging ideas, and Einstein questioning Freud on war, ...

Wanda Louise "Bunny" Perkins was talkative and outgoing, perfect for portraying Kitirik the cat on Channel 13 in Houston from ...

July saw the death of heavy metal godfather Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath lead singer whose influence in the genre spans generations.

The “St. Kateri Bell of Hope” will be hung in the bell tower for the first time on 9 August, the anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Nagasaki ...

Books & the Arts / Richard Parker’s love letter to El Paso, The Crossing, argues that the Texas city can illustrate the best and the worst of the nation’s history. Kyle Paoletta For millennia, El Paso ...

Between 27 May and 21 July, over 1,000 people in Gaza were killed while trying to access food. The death toll continues to ...

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the impact on Japanese people cannot be ignored.

Public schools have existed in America for hundreds of years. As our country has grown, so too has the demand for educated, skilled and productive citizens who are perpetually called ...

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.

Lawyers for convicted rapist Gareth Ward have filed an injunction to stop his expulsion from parliament, which means he will ...