In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks and plazas across the United States on Saturday to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular ...

Driven by a cult of simplicity, devotees were ahead of their times — as a show at the Vitra Design Museum near Basel makes ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army and discovered a future in the military. Promoted to general during the War of 1812, Jackson became a national war hero after a stunning ...

Surrey’s finest fizz – courtesy of nearby vineyard Greyfriars – is the usual tipple of choice at Grange Park Opera, but on a ...

1783: The volcano Laki in Iceland begins an 8-month eruption, killing 10,000 and causing widespread famine throughout Asia and Europe. 1795: Louis XVII of France dies aged 10.

A draw often seems like a loss to the stronger side and a win to the upcoming side. In starting a war, India may have hoped to inflict one-sided, humiliating losses on Pakistan before global ...

It was 1940. War raged across Asia and Europe. America had not yet joined the war, but the country was beginning to prepare for the worst. Franklin D. Roosevelt sat in the White House, speaking to his ...

The War of 1812, which lasted until 1815, once again pitted the United States against Great Britain. The conflict was driven by maritime disputes, including the British practice of impressment ...

Each side reported that 390 of its people had been returned, and more swaps are expected this weekend. By Marc Santora and Constant Méheut Marc Santora reported from the Chernihiv region of ...

He used to sell this newspaper from his stand in the shadow ... every day would have guessed that here was a man who went to war and ended up on a desert island. Minus most of his clothes and ...