The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb ...

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

An aftershock yesterday struck Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, near the epicenter of the initial quake, toppling ...

A shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake was followed shortly by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock, causing widespread destruction in ...

Here's something that Erdogan must bear in mind: the downfall of his arch-rival, Bashar Al Assad of Syria, began with his ...

An activist group said several hundred Muslims died while praying at mosques and 200 Buddhist monks were crushed by a ...

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than three days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck ...

The Knoxville Smokies are honoring the legacy of the Giants, the city's Negro League team that won a championship in 1920.

Myanmar's ruling junta declared a week of national mourning on Monday for the country's devastating earthquake, which has ...

BANGKOK: Survivors were pulled out of rubble in Myanmar and signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in ...

BANGKOK — A unilateral partial cease-fire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts was announced on Saturday by Myanmar’s ...