Taiwan has overtaken South Korea to record the world’s lowest birth rate, according to newly released government data.

Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits nabbed the #7 position for his solo on the 1985 hit "Sultans of Swing," while another '80s ...

In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

Caracas was once the cultural capital of Latin America; today, artists, dealers and diasporic galleries are keeping art in ...

Wisconsin author Michael Schumacher, who produced an array of works ranging from biographies of filmmaker Francis Ford ...

At the time, Phil was bereft over the loss of his wife of 60 years, Marion Crouze Chase, who had died the year before. On a ...

On Jan. 2, 2006, 12 men were killed in a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in West Virginia's Upshur County.

On Dec. 29, 1975, a terrorist bomb exploded at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 75.

Daylight was still in its infancy when the television was turned off and replaced by a short walk. The news — as it has increasingly become unsettling — included details about the federal government’s ...

Patton Oswalt, Martin Scorsese, Seth Rogen and more examine 1975 as a key cultural and historical turning point. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic It’s here that film scholars and people with ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...