This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

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For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...

Mexican communities are taking the law into their own hands, with lynchings on the rise in response to violent crimes largely ...

Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to human health. But experts say there are steps people can take to reduce the risk.

Both major parties have made housing policy a centrepiece of their campaigns, and neither has escaped criticism for avoiding real affordability solutions focused on tax reform and supply.

Authorities just issued a new warning about a bank scam that's hitting accounts across the US. Police outside Washington, D.C ...

George Washington when, on July 31, 1777, he was introduced to the latest French "major general" foisted on him by the Continental Congress, this one an aristocrat not yet out of his teens.

1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and ...

Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love ...

IN A COUNTRY where political polarization increases each year, two experts on the topic — from opposite sides of the ...