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

One Madison middle school student had the opportunity of a lifetime when he qualified for the 2025 Scripps National Spelling ...

The trade disputes involving global economic powerhouses such as the U.S. and China are being felt even in such distinctly local places as your regional amusement park. Families ...

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home, ...

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

Gjert Ingebrigtsen, the father of Norwegian track star Jakob Ingebrigtsen, was convicted Monday of assaulting his daughter and handed a suspended prison sentence. A court ...

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

A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between ...

Navin Chaudhary had just begun eating his meal when a loud bang startled him. He turned back to see a massive fire taking over the dining area where he and other trainee ...

Israel’s Ministry of Defense has condemned the erection of black partition walls around its defense industry pavilions at the Paris Air Show, calling the move “outrageous and ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Austria on Monday in his first trip to the European Union member country ...