The Trump Organization was looking battered just last year. Its businesses had already been convicted of criminal fraud. It was hit with a civil judgment of more than $450 million. Its longtime ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible. The ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

An extraordinary, lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient Judaea. The details point to two individuals being guilty of fraud, forgery, and slave trade. The ...

A farmer discovered a 900-square-foot mosaic from the third century in his field in Turkey. Covered by a thin layer of soil, the artwork depicts a variety of hunting scenes from the Roman era. A ...

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has now introduced a system for issuing e-khatas to bring five lakh properties into the tax bracket To streamline the property registration process ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a 'holy dip' in the sangam, the confluence of three rivers - the Ganga, the Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati - in Prayagraj, where the Maha Kumbh is being held ...

Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old private spa complex thought to be the most elaborate ever found in the ancient Roman world A private spa complex belonging to a member of the ancient Roman ...

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WASHINGTON - A gesture made by Elon Musk while he was speaking at President Donald Trump's Inauguration Parade Monday evening caused a stir online, with some people noting that the tech ...

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Researchers excavated the deposits of coins and jewelry in the Netherlands, near the German border Sonja Anderson The cache included swords, spears, lances and chainmail. Researchers think these ...