From Rio to Athens, these Olympic arenas, buildings and villages from around the world lay abandoned. See eerie photos from ...

Late in World War II, Nazi Germany developed a jet powered suicide aircraft based on the V-1 flying bomb. Piloted versions ...

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When World War II ended, and the United States stood triumphant, another, quieter victory was unfolding beneath the surface.

The families of Trinidadian fishermen killed by the U.S. military in an October boat strike are demanding justice.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has a storied history in Brooklyn and in New York City as a whole. At its start in 1801, the 300-acre waterfront site was a major U.S. naval shipbuilding center, where famed and ...

And by November 2025 al-Sharaa was standing in the Oval Office, where even President Donald Trump expressed something like ...

The second span of Long Bridge will double rail capacity across the Potomac. It’s not the first attempt to increase capacity by building a second rail crossing of the river in the District: During ...

A nation watched in horror as the space shutter Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, during a live television broadcast. Reality: No it didn’t, and no it didn’t. Challenger was the second shuttle to ...

Only a few parts of this long-forgotten railway line remain standing, but it once carried up to 2,000 people a year on their ...

The Hawaii Army National Guard dedicated a new memorial honoring the 26 guardsmen aboard a transport boat sunk by a Japanese ...

Mario Puretic was born in 1904 in the village of Sumartin on the Dalmatian Island of Brac, Croatia.