Jackson Square, designed as military parade grounds, was known as the Place d’Armes during the French colonial period and ...

(From left) Dr. Rachunliu (Chun) G. Kamei, Research Associate Stephen Mahony and Dr. Sara Ruane hold a Ophiophagus Salvatana at the Field Museum, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Researchers are ...

Marseille's giant 'Good Mother' statue to gleam brighter A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more than a century watched over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers is ...

The image of the writer’s grandmother in an Atlanta church invited him on a journey into family history.

Rising Ground, a nonprofit with roots in the early 19th century, now houses statues of its founders that used to be on a ...

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History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...

Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. He also has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the ...

President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of ...

Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a ...

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