Archaeologists have discovered a giant statue of Egypt's famous pharaoh Amenhotep III at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities authority said on Tuesday. The 13-metre-tall ...

Jeff Parness still remembers the pain of September 11, 2001, when his friend and business partner, Hagay Shefi, was among the thousands killed in the World Trade Center attacks. But Parness, a native ...

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Mike Huckabee continues to spark speculation about whether he will get into the 2012 presidential race, but for now, the former Arkansas governor is getting into the educational cartoon field.

Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.

In the spring of 2011, my wife and I embarked on a six-week journey through Germany, France, and Poland, following in the footsteps of my grandfather and uncle. Theirs was not a pleasant jaunt, ...