Exactly 400 years ago this month, King James I of England died and his son, King Charles I, took the throne. In 1625, no one ...

Farnham-based, award-winning children’s author Ally Sherrick hosted a launch event for her latest book, Rebel Heart, at ...

Historical films are bound to have dramatic inaccuracies, but few have been as controversially skewed as 1970's Cromwell.

Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

Witnesses to the execution said Hoffman appeared to involuntarily shake or had some convulsive activity. But the three witnesses who spoke – including two members of the media – agreed that ...

The highest court in Texas on Tuesday issued a rare stay of execution for David Leonard Wood, who has always denied being the so-called Desert Killer and reiterated his innocence in a recent ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - U.S. Chief District Judge Shelly Dick has blocked the State of Louisiana from carrying out the upcoming planned execution of an inmate using nitrogen hypoxia. Nitrogen ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

Trump has framed Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main impediment to peace, falsely blaming Ukraine for starting the war, seeking to undermine Zelenskyy's legitimacy and publicly ...

A federal judge in Baton Rouge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop Louisiana from moving forward with its first nitrogen gas execution on March 18, though the state immediately moved to ...