July 13 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Jan Karski, a courier for the Polish underground during World War II who informed Allied leaders about the Holocaust.

An Iraq War veteran became the new top enlisted leader of the 11,632-soldier New York Army National Guard. Command Sgt. Maj.

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It is fascinating that some of the most splendid prose in the Hebrew Bible emerges from the mouth of Balaam, a brilliant poet ...

Four Frenchwomen who were sent by the Nazis to a camp for female prisoners found support in one another—during and after ...

In Russia, schoolgirls will be paid to have babies. In the US, Donald Trump is proposing an incentive to get women pregnant.

In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly £900) for giving birth and raising their babies. This new measure, introduced in the past few ...

In 2023, the fertility rate in Russia stood at 1.41 births per woman, well below the replacement rate of 2.05 needed to ...

An agreement has been reached regarding property confiscated from the Hohenzollern family: Items currently displayed in ...

Nearly 80 years after scaling barbed wire fences in Nazi-occupied Poland and jumping from moving trains in search of freedom ...

Today in History for July 21: In 1667, the "Treaty of Breda," which restored Acadia to France, was signed in the Netherlands. The treaty provided for France's restoration to England of part of the ...

975: Death of Edgar, King of England. 1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, becoming the first European to reach India by sea. 1538: Spanish conquistador of Chile and ...