It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

The back-and-forth of these NBA Finals has been constant. Game 1 went to Indiana, so Oklahoma City had to bounce back in Game 2. Indiana reclaimed the series lead in Game 3, ...

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not ...

Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down ...

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they ...

Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of some 800 infants and young ...

Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of assaulting his daughter ...

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump ...

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 38 Palestinians have been killed in new shootings in areas of food distribution centers in the ...

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...

As Republican senators consider President Donald Trump’s big bill that could slash federal spending and extend tax cuts, a ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time.