The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political ... women and children have been recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century. Historians say von Trotha, who was sent to ...

U.S. Navy loaded a nuclear-capable cruise missile with the mail and fired it from a submarine towards Florida.

"Everything is Bigger in Texas" goes the saying, but where did it start-and exactly who says it? Was it a marketing effort, ...

To date, women only make up 28 percent of Congress, 33 percent of all elected officials within state legislatures, and 33 ...

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On June 6, 1944, during World War II, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day as they launched ...

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Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

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As many as 150 military veterans and hundreds more of their family members, friends and supporters rallied Saturday at the ...

Good fashion earns its right to be remembered.” Those words weren’t just spoken by Claire McCardell, but she lived up to them ...