As we approach this long weekend and the unofficial start of summer, let us remember the true meaning of Memorial Day — to ...

Authorities say an 18-year-old woman about to begin her first year at the U.S. Air Force Academy was killed when a personal watercraft hit her kayak on a Texas lake over Memorial Day weekend.

In 1873, New York was the first state to designate Memorial Day ... After World War I, it became an occasion for honoring those who died in all of America’s wars and was then more widely ...

In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were Phyllis Priest, a beautiful hometown girl, and Cooper, a dashing Navy ...

Members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front were seen climbing out of U-Haul trucks and marching through Kansas City ...

Two people have died and nine others were injured in a shooting at Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park during Memorial Day ...

Pageantry was on full display during the King and Queen’s second and final day in Ottawa, including a ceremonial 21-gun ...

The King says a "new economic and security relationship" between Canada and the US will "deliver transformational benefits ...

Charles is the first British monarch in almost 70 years to preside over the opening of the Canadian parliament ...

Donald Trump gave a speech at a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday (May 26), boasting that he has 'everything' to the families ...

"It's been an impossible journey — just should never have been able to get to this day. And here we are, 81 years later." ...

Birkes is a veteran himself and says the goal of the memorial will be to encourage education rather than to evoke feelings of sadness.