15+ hour, 14+ min ago   (252+ words) During World War II, Mengele served at the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where about 1.1 million people were killed, approximately 1 million of them Jews. He became infamous for carrying out brutal medical experiments on inmates, including children, under the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (679+ words) The rusting hull — once a famed vessel known as the Slovenian — surfaced earlier this month from the Sava River near the Serbian town of Sremska Mitrovica, 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of the capital of Belgrade. While parts have appeared above the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1254+ words) Hours after Japanese war planes bombed Pearl Harbor and military installations across Oʻahu on December 7, 1941, martial law fell over the Hawaiian Islands. The military took control of the territory almost overnight. And the FBI, which had a list of suspects,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (184+ words) Chron The Interior Department released a statement late Thursday saying: “Our U.S Park Police are on the scene and the investigation is ongoing The public should know we will find the person responsible for this disgusting act.â…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (481+ words) The anniversary coincided with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ’s government revising the country's defense policy to further bolster the military's offensive capability. Speculation has risen about whether Takaichi, who supports nuclear dissuasion, may allow nuclear weapons to be brought…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (247+ words) Chron Tobias Korenke, a great-nephew of Protestant pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, attempted to remove the wreath from the parliamentary group of Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at Monday's event at the site where the main plotters were executed, German…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (441+ words) Chron...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1120+ words) According to the Galveston Island Dive Bar Preservation Society, Sandy's Country Store near the UTMB campus "feels like an antique shop with a bar in it—or maybe your great aunt’s doublewide." For a city of its modest size and…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (611+ words) After Demnig had swiped the sand off Berger's memorial stone and those for her husband and two sons, a dozen relatives drew closer around the four plaques, which are called Stolpersteine, or “stumbling blocks,” in German. They put down white…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (612+ words) Russia's Defense Ministry declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine for Friday and Saturday to mark the 81st anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, but it threatened to strike back at Kyiv if it tries to disrupt…...