A Civil War volunteer infantry unit from Wisconsin adopted an eaglet, named it Old Abe and took it into battle.

RACINE, Wis. — A new historical marker now honors Camp Utley, the Racine site where thousands of Wisconsin soldiers trained for the Civil War. Preservation Racine dedicated the marker on Thursday, ...

Washington in Wilkes County has long focused on the Civil War. Now, historians want to preserve the site of the 1779 Battle ...

More than 30 people reported dead with Ebola symptoms, sources tell Reuters Families had refused Ebola tests on living patients and dead bodies, sources say UN data shows Congo water and hygiene ...

Revisiting actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back ...

BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 19 (Reuters) - At least 30 people have died since the start of May in one camp for displaced civilians in northeastern Congo, a death rate that camp officials ...

Lebanese singer-turned-militant released on bail as a probe into 2013 clashes continues - Lebanese authorities have released on bail a pop star-turned-militant who spent months in jail awaiting a retr ...

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — With the window for finding survivors shrinking fast, Venezuelans combed Monday through more ruins of buildings toppled by last week’s powerful back-to-back earthquakes, ...

BUNIA, Congo — Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said, as tracing those who had been in contact with patients remains a major ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Charlotte is the planned home for what its organizers believe is the first memorial plaza in the United States to both honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and remember the Holocaust in the same space.