EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WJAR) — Dozens gathered in East Greenwich Saturday afternoon to celebrate the anniversary of the Civil War's final battle. The American Civil War ended with the Battle of ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has emerged victorious after a fiery secret battle with Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, The New York Times revealed on Friday.

Actor Alec Baldwin warned his social media followers Tuesday that he believes the United States exists in a “pre-Civil War culture.” “Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments later this month over what would be the first religious public charter school in the United States, in a case that finds Republican Oklahoma ...

Mohammed Othman, a Palestinian survivor of the April 13, 1975 attack on a bus carrying Palestinians that sparked Lebanon's civil war, prays over the graves of those killed that day, at the ...

Virginia 3rd District Representative Bobby Scott brought civil rights leaders together for a discussion on some of the changes enacted by the Trump administration. Layoff announcements surge to ...