Aiming to include an explicit bar against sex discrimination in the U.S. Constitution, the House will vote Thursday on whether to nix the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
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A pledge to close the health and wellbeing gap between Aboriginal and other Australians is failing, the government admitted Wednesday, describing the situation as a source of “national shame.”
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Long before humans explored the world’s highest peaks of the Himalayas, new research released Monday reveals our pollution got there first.
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Sinn Féin, long a political pariah due to its affiliation with the IRA, has shaken up Irish politics by winning the most votes in Weekend elections, breaking the century-long dominance of Ireland’s political duopoly.
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It’s happened: A taboo against working with an increasingly powerful far-right political party in Germany has been broken, plunging Germany into a bitter political fight and reawakening fears of its Nazi past.
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Renouncing laws that criminalized people for being gay, California Governor Gavin Newsom posthumously pardoned a prominent black civil rights leader Tuesday and introduced a new clemency process for those convicted under discriminatory LGBTQ laws.
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Irish voters go to the polls Saturday with the possibility of a major upset by Sinn Féin, a center-left nationalist party affiliated with the Irish Republican Army during the Troubles and now campaigning to unify Ireland in the wake of Brexit.
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A three-judge Fifth Circuit panel heard arguments Tuesday in a case centered on a city’s decision not to allow the Louisiana branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to wave Confederate flags in a 2015 Christmas parade.
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The government must release some documents that will shed light on two grand juries that sat in Boston nearly 50 years ago to investigate the leak of the Pentagon Papers, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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As sandal season fast approaches, a new exhibit on ancient footwear at a top Italian museum seeks to remind today’s well-heeled that when it comes to fashion, do as the Romans did.
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Annexation, at its heart, is a byproduct of conflict. Almost never is it an act of peace, though it has been cast that way at times throughout history.
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A measure to remove Civil War monuments in Virginia passed its first hurdle Monday morning, while a related effort by a rural Republican lawmaker shook up another committee meeting.
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Police have cordoned off one of the busiest areas of central London after what’s thought to be an unexploded World War II bomb was dug up at a construction site.
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Before the emergence of the new coronavirus, which has sparked worldwide panic, other epidemics had struck earlier in the 21st century, but were less deadly than the previous century’s pandemics.
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An author and former federal prosecutor has sued the National Enquirer, claiming a story it published on the death of actress Natalie Wood used confidential information from his voluminous book manuscript on the subject.
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Human skulls found in the underground caves near Tulum, Mexico, flooded by bodies of water and layered in limestone rock, suggest the earliest North Americans may have already had a high level of biological diversity, both internally and externally.
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A man appeared in an English court on Monday charged with attempting to steal a priceless original 1215 version of the Magna Carta.
Read moreThe sun was going down on Sept. 22, 1908, in a remote part of upper Dorchester County when a buckshot blast rang out.
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Federal agents in Delaware have recovered a more than 500-year-old copy of a letter penned by Christopher Columbus that vanished from an Italian library decades ago.
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A priest’s voice can call out from ancient Egypt thanks to the help of a 3-D printer, a group of researchers and an electronic voice box.
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