The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924.

"They are taking people away, and there is nothing we can do about it," wrote the 14-year-old girl in her diary in April 1944 ...

Holocaust survivor Erna Gorman endured a harrowing and horrifying journey to escape death at the hands of the Nazis. She lost ...

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Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Plotting to Kill Trump . A federal judge has sentenced Ryan Wesley Routh to life in prison for attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at the former president’s ...

AT 96, Renee Salt’s life has been marked by unimaginable horrors. She is one of only two people still alive in Britain who ...

Although Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, died during an aerial dogfight over a century ago during the ...

Near the village of Combe Hay, a few miles south of Bath (and close to where I live), there is a sloping field that has been ...

What Farage and Trump are feeding off are not the practical arguments but the cumulative paranoia they have themselves fomented ...

As Russia fails to deliver results and avoids accountability both at home and on the battlefield, it pushes the human cost of its war outward – recruiting and consuming lives of foreigners.

I want to be clear that the current times are not identical, and Trump is no Hitler," Bishop Taylor stated. "But the moral ...

More U.S. Catholic bishops are sounding the alarm over an increasingly frayed social order both at home and abroad -- while ...