People accused of crimes have laid the blame at a variety of doorsteps to excuse — or at least explain — what happened. John Hinckley Jr. said it was the movie “Taxi Driver” and his obsession with a y ...
In 1967, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka tried to stop the country’s Biafra war, in which Nigeria’s Igbo people responded to violence by seceding from the rest of the country. They proclaimed a new ...
The White House halls have been decked for the holidays every year since John and Abigail Adams held the first Christmas ...
In 1983 the period of detente had come to an end. The new president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, had referred to the ...
Holiday parades (on land and sea), markets and concerts pack the weekend, along with Prohibition-themed parties and the ...
For years, even before he became president, Donald Trump criticized the Europeans for free riding on the U.S. Today he has apparently proposed adding Ukraine as another defense dependent, with a ...