In 1757, a firing squad executed Adm. John Byng on the deck of a Royal Navy warship for “failing to do his utmost” in pursuing the enemy during a battle in the Seven Years’ War. As Voltaire put it, ...

August 1st 1990 was blisteringly hot. In Liverpool the entire stock at a chocolate factory melted, and at a castle in Essex a waxwork knight turned into a puddle. It was so warm that the tarmac at ...

American Chinook aircraft and Apache gunship escorts clattered through the night sky over Caracas, which was splashed orange with explosions as missiles attacked military sites across the country. A ...

BAGHDAD (WCSC) — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging nearly 20 years ago. Hussein had ruled Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow and capture by a US-led coalition in 2003. He ...

We live in an era where the film franchise rules all. But even before everything in theaters was part of a comic book universe, the horror franchise was seemingly as undying as its antagonist. It’s ...

That film acted as a soft reboot, introducing the twist that the fascist government of the New Founding Father of America retook power and instituted a new clandestine movement: the Forever Purge. Now ...

Riley Moser is a digital producer who covers breaking news and feature stories for CBS Minnesota. Riley started her career at CBS Minnesota in June 2022 and earned an honorable mention for sports ...

U.S. soldiers uncovered a hole hidden just meters away from the kitchen where Hussein had been hiding in a farmhouse near Tikrit. The arrest was a huge victory for U.S. forces battling an insurgency ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand. In 1816, the United States' first savings bank, the Provident Institution for Savings, opened in ...

Saddam Hussein’s rise to power was marked by ruthless purges that crushed rivals and tightened his grip on Iraq. His reign, along with his sons, brought decades of cruelty and fear to the nation. Iran ...

On Nov. 5, 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the presidential election; she was later arrested and charged with “knowingly voting without having a lawful right to ...