The first Martin Luther King Jr. Day was January 20, 1986. Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. King, had a great idea in the year prior to the first observance of the federal holiday.

One group says more than 100 have died and 500 others are still trapped, with many ill and starving. How long have they been underground? It's not clear exactly how long the miners have been ...

China began 2025 by escalating its economic conflict with the United States, further intensifying the ongoing trade war. In anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump’s entry into the Oval ...

Two Rigby residents have partnered with Feed My Starving Children, a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to providing nourishing food to hungry children across the globe. Feed My Starving ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more ...

Forensic service workers carry remains in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 ...

At least 400 South African miners remain trapped underground surrounded by dead bodies, a group working on behalf of the illegal miners said on Monday. Mining Affected Communities United in Action ...

BURNABY, B.C. - Florence Girard was so small when she died that she “looked like a child” in her casket, her sister told a British Columbia coroner’s inquest into the death of the woman ...

As a fearless teenage girl defying authorities by feeding starving prisoners during the Second World War, Nada Vrbanovic led a life of passion and conviction. It would be these beliefs that also ...

Ethiopia relaunched its stock exchange, the Ethiopian Securities Exchange, on Friday after a 50-year absence. The operations of the Ethiopia Securities Exchange were stopped in 1974 following the ...

A Professor of Geology and Water Resources at the Cairo University Abbas Sharaky explained that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was designed to hold 11 billion cubic meters, but its ...