The president noted representatives from Rwanda and the Congo will be in Washington on Monday to sign documents.

The US delivered its first B61-13 nuclear bomb nearly a year early. With enhanced yield and precision, it modernizes a key part of the nuclear triad amid rising global tensions.

Skagway Alaska, 1897 When you hear "Old West," images of gun-toting cowboys, saloons with swinging doors, and high-speed horse chases likely flood your mind. This archetype—cemented in the ...

Soldiers at the Russian 102nd military base in Gyumri put up a show for visitors. (Photo: gov.ru) A new knot is being added to the already tangled efforts of getting an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace ...

The Penn family claimed that the treaty ceded an area of 1,200,000 acres that included a land boundary extending as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half, hence the name Walking Purchase.

Since the two states finalized the treaty text on March 13, talk in Azerbaijan has been far more about war than peace. On the same day that Armenia disclosed the treaty text had been finalized, ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's infancy—the earliest cosmic time yet accessible to humans. Measuring ...

Man of the Year (See Cover) On the year's shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy's ...

Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of ...

Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his White House tenure and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his lifetime of ...

Bettmann Leaders around the world are mourning the death of former president Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at his home in Georgia. He was 100 years old —the oldest living US president ever.

Carter referenced his Christian faith in the opening lines of his presidential inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1977, quoting the biblical Old Testament call "to do justly, and to love mercy, and to ...