On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West. Following military operations, which lasted for the next 20 days, Nazi Germany ...

1868 – The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government. 1868 – ...

Created out of America's desire to protect Europe from communism, the North Atlantic Alliance underwent profound changes ...

The Trump administration has hopefully just learned an important lesson: the strategic importance of Voice of America’s foreign language services for U.S. national security. After Israel ...

Czech photographer Václav Toužimský, best known for his powerful photo of a Soviet tank smashing through an arcade in Liberec during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, has died at the age of 90.