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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...

Most of these warships, including the Stewart, were completed too late to participate in World War I, but they factored heavily into the U.S. Navy’s World War II armada. And the Stewart has an ...

An American World War II-era bomb buried beneath a busy Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, cratering a busy taxiway and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, officials said. According ...

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. This damaged a runway and canceled more than 80 flights, but no one was ...