Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul’s sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had turned it into a museum.
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Video of a historic bench trial that led to the overturning of California’s ban on same-sex marriage must be unsealed next month, a federal judge ruled Thursday, after finding no good reasons support keeping them hidden from public view.
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Early Polynesian sailors likely made landfall in South America centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, according to an eye-opening study by Stanford Medicine researchers published Wednesday.
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The most important pilgrimage destination in medieval England has come back to life — albeit in digital form.
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Russian officials and the Orthodox church on Monday urged caution over calls in Turkey to alter the status of the Hagia Sophia, the historic former cathedral in Istanbul.
Read moreL’eglise Properties, whose managing member is John Malkovich, sued Crane Builders of New Orleans, et al., in federal court, claiming they overbilled him for substandard work on a “large, historic structure” on Jackson Avenue, for which he already has paid them $5.3 million.
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A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, delivered in that city in 1852.
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Despite city council members not yet authorizing the move, statues of Confederate leaders are being torn down Wednesday afternoon in the former capital of the Confederacy.
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(CN) — Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed a bill officially retiring the Confederate symbol that has been sewed
Read moreA new chapter in the long and depressing history of politicizing disease is unfolding during the coronavirus pandemic, with political leaders around the world and their followers engaged in dangerous scapegoating of ideological, religious and ethnic enemies.
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A federal judge shut down the Justice Department on Monday when it sought to ban a student, charged with trying to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson, from all federal monuments in the nation’s capital.
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Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War.
Read morePoliticization of disease has a long, depressing history in what we know today as the Western World.
Read moreSpectators at the Mississippi Capitol broke into applause Saturday as lawmakers took a big step toward erasing the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag, a symbol that has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.
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Norway began work on Friday to excavate the first Viking ship to be unearthed in the country in more than a century, with experts hoping it will shed light on the era of the Nordic seafarers.
Read moreLudmila Yudina, a retired speech therapist and supporter of President Vladimir Putin, has been butting heads with her grandchildren.
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Five women born in the former Belgian Congo in the 1940s and forcibly taken from their mothers are suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity, according to legal documents seen Thursday by AFP.
Read moreThe Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute sued the Estate of Edmund Morris in Ventura County Court, claiming it owns materials Morris used in his presidential biography, “Dutch,” and the estate refuses to return them.
Read moreThe majority of people who spoke during a city council meeting in Fort Bragg, California, Monday favored keeping the name of the town despite its connection to a blundering Confederate general.
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The removal of a Confederate monument from a Florida town square did not violate the First Amendment rights of Southern heritage advocates, an 11th Circuit panel ruled Monday.
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