What is the Alien Enemies Act? Enacted in 1798, the AEA was designed to prepare us for a feared invasion by France, then in ...

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is under scrutiny for posting a lighthearted photo of him outside a New Orleans restaurant hours after the deadly truck attack on New Year's Day. The photo, posted ...

When the French revolutionaries specified in the constitution of 1791 that a day of national celebration was to be held each ...

Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais faced calls to be cancelled because people were offended by their jokes. JK Rowling had her ...

The world-famous AP photo of Kim Phuc — “The Terror of War,” known popularly as “Napalm Girl” — was taken on June 8, 1972, and credited to Nick Ut, a ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. — At least 15 people were killed and dozens more were injured in what the FBI is investigating as a terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar ...

A DECADE ago today, al-Qaeda terrorists stormed the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris - resulting in three days of terror. Brothers Cherif and Said ...

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The two Israelis wounded in the ISIS-inspired terror attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day last week were IDF reservists who recently returned from the battle ...