As experts consulted by Fact Check pointed out, convicts sent to NSW had many legal rights not typically afforded to slaves. ... his second Instructions of 20 August 1789 and official dispatches.

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship sailing in international waters off Egypt, was attacked by Israeli jet planes and torpedo boats.

Donald Horne complained in 1964 that we were ‘derivative’ with ‘second rate’ leaders. The coming of British liberties in 1788 led to remarkably modern liberal democracies in the 1850s.

In this extraordinary letter written just weeks before his inauguration, Washington emphasizes judgment, character, and ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy joined Republican senators for a White House meeting where President Donald Trump hoped to shore up support for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Unbelievable donation to Adelaide Hills’ op shop stuns Red Cross” was the headline for a story on the Adelaide gossip site ...

1789 Capital President Omeed Malik and 1789 Capital Partner Donald Trump Jr. join 'Squawk Box' to discuss GrabAGun's SPAC deal, how the Trump family got involved in crypto, state of the economy ...

"He wasn't trying to scare him, he was trying to kill him," he said in court. The evidence was apparently enough for the jury to convict Butler, 31, of all charges, including first-degree murder.

A Pakistani man seized last year in a raid by US Navy SEALS was convicted Thursday of smuggling Iranian weapons to Yemen's Huthi rebels.

A convict who walked away from a Barrio Logan halfway house last week was captured Tuesday, authorities reported. State park rangers took 29-year-old Justin M. Dake into custody without incident ...

A court in El Salvador has sentenced three former senior military officers to 15 years in prison for the killing of four Dutch journalists in 1982. Jan Kuiper, Koos Koster, Hans ter Laag and Joop ...

Jones was found guilty by a jury last week of stabbing Dominique Rem’mie Fells, a 27-year-old transgender woman, no less than 40 times, then dumping the victim’s upper torso in the Schuylkill ...