John Brown’s raid was meant to ignite a rebellion—but instead, it led to his capture and execution. His death shocked the nation and deepened the divide between North and South. To some, he became a ...

“Estelle Speros was a Pied Piper of extraordinary capacity,” says Scott Jacobson, a former executive at Arizona Public Service and Executive Director of Valley Leadership. “She assembled a troupe of ...

Already having faced an energy crisis five years ago, more European consumers believe they are “one Trump-ignited war away” from crushing costs. Already having faced an energy crisis five years ago, ...

The rookie wanted to know the same thing everybody else did. An hour before tipoff Wednesday night, Carter Bryant poked his head through the locker room door, surveyed the scene, and furrowed his brow ...

IOWA CITY — An Iowa City woman who police said set fire to her sofa in a two-story residence early Sunday, as her upstairs neighbor slept, told investigators she wanted to “make a crime scene.” Cara ...

More than 16 years after Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted of killing roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy, the former jailbird is taking a stab at stand-up – and getting panned as "not really" funny ...

The August 1929 massacres did not begin or end in Hebron or Safed. They began in Jerusalem, around the Western Wall, when a local dispute over religious “status quo" rules was weaponized into a ...

AS a boy, Sir David Attenborough was leafing through an old book when he stumbled upon the words that changed his life. They were in a 19th Century work called The Malay Archipelago, which contained a ...

US president directs fresh criticism at pontiff days before secretary of state Marco Rubio’s visit to Vatican Donald Trump has issued another verbal attack against Pope Leo, accusing the pontiff of ...

On Sept. 2, 1972, teenage Bruce Russell rode his bicycle along a London road in the dark, oblivious to what was about to happen. At 18, barely out of high school, the teen was looking forward to a ...