In March 1944, Soviet forces threatened to cut vital German supply routes by surrounding the fortress town of Kovel. To ...

The marriage between Europe and the United States has been fraught from the first—and now it might be coming apart.

In May 1944, Soviet forces pushed toward Romania’s oil fields with confidence. Near Târgu Frumos, that momentum suddenly ...

On Jan. 22, 1973, in its historic Roe vs. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state bans and made abortion legal.

The Pentagon identified Delaware soldier Lt. Col. Louis Roemer, missing since WWII, decades after his capture and death.

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

As a member of Guadalcanal's "Cactus Air Force," Joe Foss made an enduring mark.

A Wilmington native who died while being held as a prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II has been positively identified through analysis of his remains, U.S. military officials said this ...

Known only as X-114 before identification, Staff Sgt. Paul A. “Dusty” Gregg, of Douglas County, had rested in an American ...

Mitchel Angelos, who turned 100 Jan. 14, lived an adventure that included growing up in abject poverty, serving during WW II ...

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One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...