These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates speaks at one of the union’s regular bargaining updates outside the CTU headquarters in the West Loop on Jan. 3. Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file ...

A contract deal between the Chicago Teachers Union and the school district that appeared imminent on Thursday did not materialize, with negotiations continuing throughout the evening. Hopes were ...

Ukrainian soldiers took out a squadron of Russian tanks in a tense battle that ended with a shootout inside a trench along the frontlines. Harrowing video shows the moment members of Ukraine’s ...

An aircrew with the Alaska Army Guard pulled off a rare helo-to-train landing during a cold-weather medical exercise for special operations troops in February, balancing their HH-60M Black Hawk on ...

During March and April 1865, troops under command of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston fought Gen. William T. Sherman’s 60,000-man force as it marched north through the Carolinas during the ...

Pabrade, Lithuania — Lithuania's president said Friday that he hoped for "a miracle" as he visited the site of a rescue operation to recover four missing U.S. Army soldiers from their submerged ...

"The troops are excited," said Joe Steiger with the St. Louis Police Officers Association. He remembers when the department was under state control. House Dems press for an 11th hour shutdown re ...

European leaders are shifting away from plans to send troops to bolster Ukraine’s defenses due to logistical issues and apparent lack of US support, officials said. Support for European troops ...

But put politics aside and there’s another, far more important place we should look: to our troops. They’re the ones whose lives are endangered through such recklessness, and they should have ...

These aren’t like the troop landing ships one sees in World War II movies, disgorging troops on beaches from Normandy to Iwo Jima. These troops will be invading the enemy in style, in trucks and tanks ...