Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

In watching our negotiation strategy for a cease-fire and potential end of the war in Ukraine, I cannot but help to be ...

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LONDON -- On Jan. 1, 1917, a young man from Lancashire started a diary. It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a ...

Salvini, leader of the far-right League party and a junior partner in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government, made the remarks during the inauguration of the Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in ...

Vice President JD Vance speaks at the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland.

(Week ending 24 March 2024.) While this is down from the winter peak of 1,160 seen in mid-February, figures show that the decline has slowed. The number of patients in hospital with the flu have ...

Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...