New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

Explore the history and science behind the Black Death, a devastating pandemic that swept across Central Asia, North Africa, and Europe between 1346 and 1353, resulting in the deaths of up to 50% of ...

Illness in the Middle Ages wasn’t an inconvenience—it was a sentence. Poor sanitation, malnutrition, and parasites left bodies defenseless. Tuberculosis, dysentery, typhus, and countless infections ...

Efforts to establish the death toll in the Iranian protests are confounded by the regime’s internet blockade, but even the most conservative estimates take the tally way beyond some of the most brutal ...

Iran’s army vowed Saturday to join the crackdown on protesters, one of a number of stepped-up warnings from the country’s security services as demonstrations against the regime continue to grow and ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

If you read conservative media, you might have heard about a new danger stalking our besieged country. This week, Fox News warned about “organized gangs of wine moms” using “antifa tactics” against ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

AND A GOOD MORNING TO YOU. I’M SHAQUILLE LORD TODAY I’M JOINED BY A VERY SPECIAL GUEST, SYLVIA ROSE, WITH GILDA’S WEST. SHE’S HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION HAPPENING WEDNESDAY ...

US-based rights group says 3,090 people have been killed Internet blackout reimposed after brief easing of restrictions, monitor says Iran blames foreign influence, arrests 'ringleaders' DUBAI, Jan 17 ...

Antigovernment unrest that began two weeks ago has intensified in recent days, as has violence. By Farnaz Fassihi and Malachy Browne Farnaz Fassihi has covered Iran for three decades, living and ...

The United States has started evacuating hundreds of troops from its largest air base in the Middle East ahead of potential military action by President Donald Trump against Iran, according to a U.S.