A generation of Cuban revolutionaries who seized power more than six decades ago, directly challenging the U.S. and later pushing Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war, is…

New find pries open an enduring question: why two ancient superpowers abruptly turned from diplomacy to brutality. To the naked eye—and on archeologists’ maps—it looked like just another hill amid…

Archival documents reveal the story of a Jewish child who was forced to behave like a dog in Auschwitz, at the order of the camp's notorious doctor. A contemporary researcher…

Hailed as one of the country's most significant finds in a century, the site dates to a time of political, religious and artistic change In what experts are lauding as…

(JTA) — Brandeis President Ron Liebowitz has signed a 5-year contract extension weeks after accusing the university’s board of trying to force him out of the post by offering him a short-term…

A Russian exile was strangled in his own home by a third party, a coroner has ruled. Businessman Nikolai Glushkov, who was critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found…