Every state has a capitol that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US Capitol, but others ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

Shiraz Youssef fled Sudan’s capital of Khartoum after the civil war broke out. She and her family left everything behind. People watch as a grave is dug for an imminent burial in Khartoum.

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

As Sudan burns and its people starve, a gold rush is underway. War has shattered Sudan’s economy, collapsed its health system and turned much of the once-proud capital into piles of rubble ...

President Donald Trump's deployment of Marines follows historical precedents when presidents used the Insurrection Act during crises, including the 1992 Rodney King riots and 1968 D.C. unrest.

Sudan's capital city Khartoum has been liberated after more than two years of civil war. But as NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu witnessed when he travelled there, it has been left in ruins.

But one morning in November 2023, a Hmong driver came to pick us up and set out on a journey from the capital to the former CIA-run airbase. Long Tieng was so secret when the Xiongs lived there ...

As Syria's economy collapsed during its civil war, the country became something of a narco state. The regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad earned billions by trafficking in the drug Captagon.