A proposal in the state budget calls for Virginia Commonwealth University to relinquish control of a historic Black church in ...

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

Decades after their deaths, John Fraser Shecut and his wife, Tommie E. Durdin Grady Shecut, were buried at Sumterville Cemetery ...

Washington’s Birthday has been largely forgotten as a distinct celebration, but its commemoration in Civil War-era Cambridge ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Cup Series season opens with the Super Bowl of NASCAR — the Daytona 500 — and there are plenty of ways to catch all of the ...

Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman and Parthian empires to Asia (AP) Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011 and soon escalated into a brutal civil war ...

Progressive Washington state lawmakers have introduced a bill that could remove George Washington from the state flag. House Bill 1938 aims to create a committee that will design a new state flag ...

This evening and the first part of tonight will be windy and mainly cloudy, but it should be largely dry. During the early hours, some spells of blustery, heavy rain will develop from the west ...

MOSCOW, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asked on Monday why Europe would be invited to join possible talks on a peace settlement in Ukraine if European politicians want ...

Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for U.S.-based users of Google Maps. Mexico's President Claudia ...

Israel and Hamas completed their sixth exchange of hostages and prisoners on Saturday after their ceasefire survived its latest crisis. Israeli authorities released more than 300 Palestinian ...