In 1927 the artist LS Lowry stood on the doorstep of Cottenham House in Salford, just across the river Irwell from Manchester ...

Lowry, who died in 1976, is known for his depictions of working-class life in industrial parts of northern England. James ...

Former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta said the war in the Middle East is at a crucial point now and future actions will signal whether there will be an imminent “full scale ...

• Hezbollah has lost contact with Hashem Safieddine, a possible successor to its late leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Lebanese security source. An Israeli strike targeted Safieddine on ...

Minnesota GOP Senate candidate Royce White is facing mounting criticism after a tweet resurfaced in which he claimed that the "bad guys" won World War II, a comment that has brought a backlash.

It was inaccurate. The story told readers that Lowry “appeared to use” the racial slur. Lots of questions go viral on the internet, like “Is this dress blue or gold?” Explaining the nature ...

The public editor for NPR said the outlet’s reporting on unfounded allegations that National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry uttered a racial slur during an interview was “unfair” to the ...

In late September, as Israel’s nearly year-long war widened and its credit rating was downgraded yet again, the country’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said that, while Israel’s ...

Although it was too late to take part in World War I, the vessel saw frontline action during World War II. In 1941, when the Stewart was stationed in Manila as part of the Asiatic Fleet tasked ...

Of the thousands of Navy ships in service during World War II, the USS Stewart may have one of the most unusual histories of all. Commissioned in 1920, the ship was stationed in the Philippines as ...

Kharkiv, Ukraine — A Russian glide bomb slammed into an apartment building overnight in Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv, injuring 12 people including a 3-year-old girl, according to local ...