The Piasa Bird Council of Boy Scouts of America operated an early recycling program in the mid-1940s, showcasing their ...

This is the weekend of Saturday, Feb. 15, and Sunday, Feb. 16, the 46th and 47th day of 2025. There are 318 days left in the year as of Sunday.

On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 260 crewmen and leading to a U.S. declaration ...

President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a law allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Morris Michtom, a small toy store owner, put two stuffed ’teddy bears’ in his Brooklyn shop window for sale, inspired by an ...

The USS Augusta is an Independence-variant littoral combat ship commissioned in Eastport on Sept. 30, 2024. It is the 17th ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

But it took an 1898 Supreme Court decision to establish that it applied to everyone, regardless of their parents' status or nation of origin. A 20-year-old man named Wong Kim Ark, born and living ...

The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage Thursday morning after spending nearly two decades docked in Philadelphia. The retired Navy carrier is set to ...