How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I.

With the shot heard around the world and launching the American Revolution fired in Massachusetts, this April will mark a ...

The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France ...

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began after more than a decade of growing disputes between the American colonies ...

Hospitals in Myanmar are overwhelmed with the influx of patients after the country's most powerful earthquake in a century.

Police in the Netherlands said on March 29 that a man suspected of a stabbing rampage that wounded five people in Amsterdam ...

A strong 7.7-magnititude earthquake hit Southeast Asia on March 28, killing scores of people in Myanmar and neighboring ...

North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is in East Asia. The country is known for ...

The IDF targeted "military capabilities that remained" following the overthrow of Bashar Assad by Al-Qaeda-linked forces on Dec. 8.The post IDF strikes military bases in central Syria appeared first o ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...