Republican leaders in North Carolina have proposed a new U.S. House district map that could thwart reelection prospects of a ...

During the Second World War, a PoW camp in southeast Australia nearby the township Cowra housed mainly Japanese and Italian ...

This video maps the Continuation War (1941–1944) between Finland and the Soviet Union, visually tracing troop movements, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it ...

During World War II, a few very discreet printers, designers and executives turned the beloved board game Monopoly into a get ...

The U.S. Radiator Corporation in Edwardsville was an industry in need of more employees to meet wartime needs. For more than ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the ...

The federal government kept detailed records of every crop in Amache’s agricultural program, but overlooked the ways ...

For almost two years in the 1940s, the federal government exercised strict control over such weather reports, a World War II-era precaution that caused unexpected havoc on the home front, including on ...

A wildfire in Northern California has devastated the historic village of Chinese Camp, consuming over 6,400 acres and prompting evacuations. A wildfire blazing in Northern California has destroyed ...

The historic California "Gold Rush" town of Chinese Camp has been torched by a rapidly spreading wildfire, burning several homes there. CalFire, the state's chief fire agency, said the wildfire was ...