In 1863, during the Civil War, Union troops spearheaded by the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of Black soldiers, charged Confederate-held Fort Wagner on Morris Island, S.C. The ...

On July 18, 1976, at the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to receive a perfect score of 10 from Olympic judges for her performance on the uneven bars. In ...

Hideki Matsuyama, the former Masters champion who is ranked No. 11 in the world, has committed to playing the Rocket at Detroit Golf Club next week, tournament officials announced Thursday.

Hideki Matsuyama has a different caddie on the bag this week at the Rocket Classic in Detroit. It turns out that there is a very good reason.

When the Prince of Wales went down during World War II, it marked the end of the battleship era. Here's why the naval tech just couldn't stick around.

Melvin Huff was just 19 when the Army lost contact with his plane in Papua New Guinea in January 1945.

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than during the Cold War.

80 years after his death in World War II, remains of Minnesotan's father finally identified Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire ...

80 years after his death, North Dakota World War II serviceman's remains identified Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945 ...

Crowds gathered in Tehran wearing all black and waving Iranian flags as the country held a funeral for top military commanders and nuclear scientists killed during the 12-day war with Israel.

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.