A short but illuminating book by veteran French historian Claude Quétel examines the truths and myths surrounding the Nazi ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his administration, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, spoke at a memorial service for the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

I n the days before Pete Hegseth stepped onstage to address the hundreds of generals and admirals he summoned for a ...

Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1945, World War II surrender ceremonies took place across the Japanese Empire.

The V-1 "flying bomb" could accurately be described in today’s nomenclature as an unmanned aerial vehicle — moreover, as the ...

On 10 October 1961, a volcanic eruption threatened the population of Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, and all 264 islanders were evacuated to the UK. Two years ...

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It’s 30 years since American football star OJ Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her ...

Tory grandee Lord Heseltine has warned Kemi Badenoch that the party’s attacks on migrants are “not the Conservative way to ...

The activist’s murder is a disaster for the country.

Online users reposted the newspaper article from Feb. 4, 1939, following ABC's initial September 2025 announcement of suspending "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" ...

When I was six, my maiden aunt Eva gave me a first edition of “The World Is Round,” by Gertrude Stein. Eva, who worked in a ...