Tag: History

In February 1984, Jean-Marie Le Pen appeared for the first time on France’s biggest political TV show, L’Heure de Vérité (The Hour of Truth). Outside the studio, despite the freezing ...

If, as he promises, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump can settle Russia’s war against Ukraine, he will surely boast that he accomplished something no one else has been able to do ...

Authorities in Utah are searching for whoever banged climbing anchors into the site of an ancient outdoor engraving carved by Native Americans nearly a millennium ago. The bolts — which ...

On Dec. 8, when opposition forces stormed the gates of Sednaya, the infamous Damascus prison dubbed Syria’s “human slaughterhouse,” the long-reported horrors of Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year regime became undeniable. Videos ...

When South Korean legislator Kim Min-seok warned in August that President Yoon Suk-yeol might be plotting to declare martial law, even the most ardent critics of Yoon were skeptical. Of ...

U.S. President Joe Biden made headlines on Dec. 1 when he pardoned his son, Hunter. As the Thanksgiving weekend came to an end, the president decided to make the extraordinary ...

French President Emmanuel Macron hailed the “sublime” rebuild of the magnificent 12th-century gothic Notre Dame de Paris cathedral as he toured it before reopening on Friday. Notre Dame de Paris ...

When Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned under pressure amid mass student protests in August, some of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist supporters were quick to blame—without much ...

In 1966, Chinese leader Mao Zedong engineered a decisive return to power after seven years of quiet retreat following the first period of his near-absolute rule, which ended with one ...

Perhaps no moment better sums up the theme and purpose of Gladiator II than when the film’s hero, Lucius “Hanno” Verus (Paul Mescal), needing courage and inspiration, seeks it at ...