Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature is training its eyes again on city and county governments, with dozens of bills ...

In ancient Sparta, the Agoge prepared boys for a lifetime of military service with harsh training that emphasised strength ...

Nature of freedom It’s not clear what freedom has become in the twenty-first century. So many claim it, but so few understand ...

The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, ...

Florida’s attorney general Tuesday threatened to punish Fort Myers City Council members who rejected an immigration pact with the federal government, the first bid by the state to force local ...

Police cordoned off the site and sent in evidence gathering ... where preparations were being made to receive patients with ...

The owner of TLC Sports Bar & Grill says it’s devoted to ensuring all patrons are safe. But the sheriff’s department calls it a “problem bar.” ...

Protesters hurled petrol bombs and set fire to trash cans in Athens on Friday as hundreds of thousands of Greeks went on strike and took to the streets in nationwide demonstrations on the second ...

That isn’t real.” My immigrant grandfather Andrew said this in Greek to my parents as they watched the live broadcast on ...

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