Caroline Monvoisin, a Consul General of France, pins the Legion of Honor medal on 101-year-old World War II veteran John F. Homan during a ceremony at Foxdale Village on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. Abby ...

A partisan gerrymander left even less for California Republicans to fight for. But they’re fighting — including each other.

This story has been corrected. LONDON — Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service thanks to the longtime efforts of a ...

Two Costa Mesa roommates are running on barely two hours of sleep Friday after spending their night rescuing a Vietnam War veteran whose car began floating in fast-rising floodwater outside their home ...

For decades, the grave of Joseph H. White sat neglected and unmarked in an abandoned Seward cemetery overgrown with trees. But this summer, the burial site of the Civil War veteran who ended up in ...

Territorial Colorado was still years away from statehood and had only about 34,000 citizens when the American Civil War tore our country apart. Yet, even with its fledgling population, Colorado was ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Volunteers and students from a home-building nonprofit teamed up recently to give an 86-year-old Vietnam War veteran a major home makeover, completely free of charge. Thomas Heckert, ...

NPR Veterans Correspondent Quil Lawrence interviewed Dave Carlson over 10 years, as the Iraq war vet went from war to incarceration to redemption... This story originally published on Nov. 16, 2025.

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) -- The Final Salute for a Union Civil War veteran who died in Des Moines nearly 100 years ago got even better after he was discovered by two of his descendants at the Iowa ...

A Blount County resident is raising money to reinstall the tombstone of a near-forgotten Civil War veteran after he found the original marker being auctioned off in Roane County. “I belong to the Sons ...

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...