Life in the 1850s ran on chores that started at dawn and ended when the lamps went dark. Water didn’t come from a tap, heat ...

The SAR government has strongly condemned the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and anti-China foreign media, saying they tried to whitewash the crimes committed by former media tycoon Jimmy ...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government today strongly condemned the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and foreign anti-China media for turning a blind eye to the court’s ...

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Viola Floyd Fletcher passed away on Nov. 24. At 111, she was the oldest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, a pogrom and an act of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by thousands of white people that ...

Almost a year after the nation’s worst aviation disaster in decades, Congress is poised to give the military free rein to resume flying helicopters on training missions in Washington without using a ...

The song contest continues with its mission of ‘unity and cultural exchange’ by rolling out the red carpet for Israel, even though at least four countries have pulled out in protest A new acronym ...

In death, there are now two Dick Cheneys. One is the Cheney who was, without question, the most powerful vice-president in the history of the United States, a brilliant, ruthless, and deeply ...

Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa was just welcomed to Donald Trump’s White House. His visit represents Washington’s embrace of a sectarian government with little respect for democracy. An invitation ...