Olympic fans may know that Cortina d’Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games once before, in 1956. Less well known is that 15 years ...

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.

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Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

OSLO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Norway has agreed to buy long-range artillery systems and rockets from South Korean defence group ...

OSLO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Norway's parliament on Tuesday approved a $2 billion procurement plan for long-range artillery to ...