Demonstrators came out in cities across the U.S. to protest President Trump. Organizers of Saturday's "No Kings" ...

Francis Richard Lubbock was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1815 to Dr. Henry and Ann Lubbock. While still an infant, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated one of the most ambitious railway projects ever built in India, which will ...

A surprise Ukrainian drone attack that targeted several Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers was unprecedented in its scope and sophistication and for the first time reached ...

Two orphaned brothers headed west in search of adventure and a new life.  The story is common in the annals of the frontier.  In the case of brothers Francis and Thomas Lubbock of South Carolina, ...

Mississippi ... channel at the river's end to reach major ports that handle 18% of U.S. waterborne commerce. For almost 100 years, levees and other human-made flood control structures have lined ...

Join the History Seekers as we uncover 150-year-old Civil War relics from the historic Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana. In this unforgettable metal detecting trip, we found a Confederate sword, a ...

Flood protocols the Corps uses today were established under the 1928 Flood Control Act. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tests opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway as the Mississippi River nears ...

Congress created the Mississippi River Commission in 1879 to survey the river and, after the 1927 flood, to work under and alongside the Army Corps of Engineers in inspecting flood control measures ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The rising Mississippi River has reached the floodgates at the Bonnet Carre Spillway, prompting the U.S. Army Corps of ... section of the flood-control system.