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The last two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s were found guilty Friday by an international tribunal.

An intense wind from the west frothed the Delaware Bay and tore at the signs activists held as they gathered on the beach near the East P ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia is turning the 1763 massacre of the Conestoga Native American tribe into a comic book.

A hundred years later, their words can still pierce hearts.

"The traces of this war never went away," Macron said.

They were messengers, spies and sentinels. They led cavalry charges, carried supplies to the front, and died by the millions during World War I.

More than 360,000 Delawareans voted in Tuesday’s midterm elections. That translates to a turnout rate of 52 percent.

Pennsylvania will send a record-setting four women to Congress next year, up from the current total of zero. Is the "Year of the Woman" here again?

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr. to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, comics illustrate the fight for equality.

Last week, one of the last remaining secrets from the Watergate scandal was finally revealed.

As thousands of migrants walk to America to escape the violence in Central America, I’m disappointed that a president who is the son of ...

Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious.

Guests: Katherine Howe, Mark Binelli People accused of witchcraft in the 17th and 18th cent ...

A theatrical lecture at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia demonstrates the scientific roots of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."