Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn ...

Altadena, the Los Angeles suburb leveled by the Eaton Fire, has a thriving Black community that bought homes in the civil ...

A commemorative stone slab and smaller stones following the presumed outline of Brown’s body mark the site on a hilltop ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

Sudanese-Australian survivors of the Darfur genocide are raising the alarm about a new alleged genocide of their people. This ...

The ByWard Market building then burned to the ground in the 1860s and had to be rebuilt as the city around it changed ...

More death and destruction in Israeli attacks as severe fuel shortages in Gaza force overrun hospitals to close.

She had briefly been in a New York homeless shelter after moving to the city recently ... sitting on a platform bench and watching as she burned. Identifying the victim proved to be a challenge ...

Watson was one of the first Black landowners in Tallahassee after the Civil War. According to the historical ... census doesn’t exist because it was burned up in a fire in Washington D.C., ...

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Authorities have identified the woman who burned to death after she was set on fire inside a New York City subway train as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam. At a news conference, New York City Mayor Eric ...