A previously unknown Underground Railroad site has been discovered at Manhattan’s Merchant’s House Museum, revealing early abolitionist activity in NYC.

Detectives investigating the Feb. 1 death of Michelle Montgomery at a public housing complex in Brooklyn, New York, are ...

A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum had long been a mystery. Then researchers learned that the home’s original builder was an abolitionist.

Hidden under a built-in dresser in a former home in the East Village is a narrow crawlspace, which historians have recently ...

Paris mayoral hopeful Rachida Dati is running her campaign almost entirely on social media, posting videos with everyday Parisians to drive home her campaign promises. The strategy echoes that of ...

As we approach the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 Al Qaeda terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed thousands on that horrific day, a reckoning is coming for the thousands ...

In the case of the former, the stations have been closed to passenger trains for 85 years – the last running in the depths of ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill said officials expected the Trump administration to release more than $200 million in frozen funds by ...

Newly unsealed records reveal that Jeffrey Epstein kept some of his underage victims in an apartment building just 10 blocks from his Upper East Side townhouse.

A previously unknown site connected to the Underground Railroad was discovered in Manhattan this week. The Merchant's House ...

The Underground Railroad was a secret pathway to freedom for enslaved people escaping north, through woods, tunnels, private ...

The first solar eclipse of the year is almost here, but very few people will see it. Tuesday’s annular solar eclipse, known as a “ring of fire,” will only be visible in Antarctica. More ...