Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have voiced support for renaming military bases for Confederate generals. In the years following the Civil War, Fort Bragg, Fort Polk ...

(AP video by Cody Jackson) Two law enforcement officers joined several Democratic lawmakers in expressing their outrage over President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon some 1500 participants who ...

Prosecutors said the pursuit was reckless and the officers, both white, covered up what had happened at a time when the city was still tense following civil justice protests that erupted over the ...

Most crossing the border are South Sudanese nationals who had previously fled from civil war in the world’s newest country, the statement noted. “The people of South Sudan continue to show ...

Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times With 1.2 million troops, North Korea’s military ranks among the world’s largest standing armies, and its entry into the war was a profound escalation in ...

The D.C. police union identified two officers President Donald Trump plans to pardon as the officers convicted in the October 2020 death of a man in the Brightwood Park neighborhood.

President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship faced a barrage of legal challenges Tuesday from a bevy of states and civil rights ... consular officers to deny visas ...

Sorenson announced that 40-year-old Carlos Frate, a former Maui Police Officer, was arrested today after a federal grand jury indicted him of deprivation of civil rights and falsifying a police ...

Harris is the subject of a civil lawsuit as well. Coram is suing the former officer for violating his constitutional rights by use of excessive force. The case will be heard before a federal jury ...