President Joe Biden has declared Jan. 9 as a National Day of Mourning and has ordered U.S. flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days.

Tributes for former President Jimmy Carter were pouring in from around the world Monday, hours after the Nobel Peace Prize winner's death Sunday.

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On the short spring night of May 11, 1943, Szmul Zygielbojm—a Jewish Polish exile in despair—sat down and typed three letters in his ... that there should be a memorial to Zygielbojm in ...

After the service, Carter will be flown back to Georgia, and a private funeral service will take place in Plains at Maranatha ...

Douglas Kiester’s letter (E-R 12/21 ... the ruins of Bidwell mansion might continue to be a fitting memorial to the city’s founders as well as to Rancho del Arroyo Chico, the 20,000 acres ...

Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda after the Carter Family 'respectfully and gratefully' accepted the ...

Old Wafer-Thin Wooden Tablet With Heartfelt Birthday Party Invitation Discovered, Earliest RSVP Evidence Archaeologists knew ...

This wafer-thin wooden tablet from a first-century Roman fort in the U.K. includes a heartfelt birthday party invitation.

TOP OFFICIALS from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs identified three potential sites for former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s memorial — Ekta Sthal, Vijay ...

New York City’s criminal courts are rarely quiet. And it already looks like several cases churning through the system in the New Year are likely to make the history books. In 2025, the courts ...

Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the ...