We took out a candle, lit it and finished our dinner. In darkness. In complete silence. On April 28, the so-called Great Blackout, one of the strangest days of our lives, left all of the Iberian Peninsula in the dark. For over 10 hours we were …

The presidential pardon signed by Jimmy Carter in 1977 was a sweeping invitation to thousands of Americans to come home and help heal a nation torn apart by the Vietnam War. Those who had left for Canada to avoid the draft had wanted no part of the …

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life.

Visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the anniversary of the fall of Saigon said they still felt sadness, anger and fury. And for some, finally, closure.

Miriam Haley is the first to testify of the three women whose accusations are at the center of the disgraced producer’s retrial on sex abuse charges.

As they addressed reporters inside the Oval Office in mid-April, President Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart appeared to be operating in lock step. The United States had just deported more than 200 migrants to a maximum-security prison in El …