Fireworks began to crack as early as midday Saturday in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the nation near the site where the Declaration of Independence was adopted by delegates to the Second Continental Congress, as America celebrated...
In a small brick church in the heart of Charleroi, the Rev. Sharon Woomer had been planning a wedding with a pair of congregants when her phone buzzed, notifying her of news she and her congregation had been fearing for months. In a 6-3...
1687 Isaac Newton first published his “Principia Mathematica,” a three-volume work setting out his mathematical principles of natural philosophy. 1811 Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain.
Three children who died when a boat capsized in Geneva Lake during a Wisconsin storm were wearing life vests, authorities said, as the nation assessed damage from storms and a heat wave that marred the July Fourth holiday, leaving hundreds...
TEHRAN, Iran — Hundreds of thousands of mourners began a dayslong funeral on Saturday for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, beating their chests in sorrow before the glass case containing his flag-draped coffin in Tehran and...
