For 40 years, document nerds at the National Security Archive have been discovering things our leaders would rather you ...

Today in History for Dec. 1: In 1680, a comet appeared close to Earth and was clearly visible until the end of February. In 1841, the first copyright in Canada was issued for "A Canadian Spelling Book ...

When Eisaku Satō, a former prime minister of Japan, received the Nobel peace prize in 1974 after committing his country to not making nuclear bombs, owning them or allowing them ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio stripped a key provision out of the proposed peace plan currently being worked on to end the ...

Neither Apollo Creed nor Mr T could keep Rocky Balboa down in the first three Rocky films. And by the time of Rocky IV – with ...

When former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral, he will join a bipartisan but ...

This week’s archive charts moments of reckoning and renewal – the Soviet Union’s shifting tides, a prime minister on the brink of downfall, a financial crisis gathering pace, and a young driver making ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Plans for a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Budapest have raised hopes for peace, but also concerns about a new distribution of power in Europe. The proposed ideas for ending the ...