The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly elected Germany’s former foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to be the next head ...

An 'assault weapons' ban for Rhode Island is getting its first vote this week, but cities and towns are already fighting it.

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

Nine months after World War II began, the German Nazi war machine drove French, British, and Belgian troops west across France into a town on the English Channel’s coast, called Dunkirk. By late ...

In the depths of the North Atlantic during the European Theater of World War II, Commander Hans Jenisch aboard U-32 was on the hunt. He spotted the damaged RMS Empress of Britain, which had been ...

In 1944, Norwegian resistance fighters in the town of Kongsberg blew up a factory making cannons for occupying Nazi German ...

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During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. One of them, Walter Frankenstein, died in April at age 100.

Belarus’s events marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany were a show of state power—but also reflected real popular ...

The town of Herrlisheim, France remembers the sacrifice of the 12th Armor Division “Hellcats” and the liberation of their ...

Robert enters a city sewer and stumbles upon a forgotten wartime facility, with a stretcher under operating lights, multiple ...