7+ hour, 20+ min ago  (685+ words) Pittsburgh's pioneering Freedom House Ambulance Service is in the running for a Congressional Gold Medal " the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow. Lee grew up in North Braddock but said she learned of Freedom House only after she began her…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (615+ words) LONDON " Just over 80 years ago, directly after the Second World War, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time, in a Methodist hall in Blitz-damaged central London. There, representatives from 51 countries convened to talk about the importance of…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1871+ words) The first I saw of Dave Carlson was his back, in a prison jumpsuit on Sept. 3, 2015. Carlson had been calling me from the cellblock payphone for a few weeks for an NPR story about incarcerated combat veterans and PTSD. "Jail…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (816+ words) Updated November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM EST Within months of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Allied powers put its surviving leaders on trial in Nuremberg, the ceremonial birthplace of the fascist party and site of propaganda rallies leading up to…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (342+ words) German police say they've broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for tens of millions of dollars to unsuspecting collectors. The scheme was allegedly led by…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (334+ words) MARY MURAKAMI: There's so many parallels. It's unbelievable. SUMMERS: Mary Murakami was born in 1927. She and her family were imprisoned at the Topaz internment camp in Utah for three years. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Murakami was 14 years…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (728+ words) The Harlem Hellfighters of the New York National Guard's 369th Infantry Regiment were posthumously honored this week with a Congressional Gold Medal. They received the highest civilian honor given by Congress, decades after their service during World War I was largely…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1405+ words) Set during 1937's Nanjing Massacre, these scenes are from China's latest hit film Dead to Rights. Released in July, the movie has caused a stir among some in China. In Beijing, people stood outside the cinema waiting to watch the…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (598+ words) Updated September 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM EDT It was " quite possibly " the worst day to make a mistake. Sept. 2, 1945, was the day Japan formally surrendered to the Allies. It marked the official end of World War II. The ceremony happened on the deck…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1103+ words) TOKYO " As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, still-simmering disputes, freshly unearthed discoveries, and historical lessons waiting…...