Today in History for Jan. 8: In 1324, explorer Marco Polo died at age 70. In 1438, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches met at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in an effort to form an alliance that ...

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta with neighborhood children in their new apartment at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave. in Chicago on Jan. 26, 1966. King and his family moved into the poor ...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived for a purely Scrooge-like reason — to make money. Thankfully, its creator saw the Montgomery Ward marketing campaign as an opportunity to be as bold in his ...

Notable people born on this day include “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer and “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” host Ryan Seacrest.

The Dow industrials declined Tuesday after data on the U.S. labor market came in tepid. The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November, its highest in more than four years, fueling questions ...

Picture this: You’re a program manager at Microsoft in 2012. Your inbox is flooded with hundreds of feature requests from engineers across the company. Most are complex, resource-intensive ideas that ...

The "TODAY" show announced on Tuesday that Sheinelle Jones will co-host the fourth hour of the network’s flagship morning show alongside Jenna Bush Hager. Bush Hager said that Jones, 47, will join her ...

Update: Republican Matt Van Epps has defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District race, the Associated Press projects. Read more here. Washington — Voters are heading to the ...

Someone has hit the pause button on holiday joy. Stocks fell to start December after five straight days of gains. The S&P 500 was down 0.5%, Dow was down 0.9%, while the Nasdaq fell 0.4%. Losses were ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of ...