the tendency to keep more and more government records secret started after World War II. “For more than a century and a half after its founding, our government was remarkably transparent,” he ...

Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...

Sgt. James Raley's account came almost three months to the day after he improbably survived that fall from the skies over ...

Railways are especially vulnerable because even a few millimeters of ash on tracks would stop train operations ... governments have only secured about half of the needed public space to keep ...

When one thinks of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) weapons of World War II, chances are the depth charge is the first weapon that comes to mind. This is understandable, since it was certainly the ...

Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of Wahoo and her intrepid crew.

The 34-year-old two-time Olympic silver medallist has enjoyed a glittering career on the cycling track, winning a raft of major medals at World, European and Commonwealth level. She claimed silver ...

Operating as the Nozomi, it reduced the Tokyo to Shin-Osaka travel time to just two and a half hours ... to the underside and then fell onto the tracks, displacing ballast and damaging equipment ...

That's all for our live coverage today, but we'll be back with more updates and analysis tomorrow. If you're just checking in, here is a recap of the key developments today: The US and Russia held ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

billboard hot 100™ the week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by streaming activity from digital music sources tracked by luminate, radio airplay audience impressions as ...