On November 26, 1968, USAF helicopter pilot James P. Fleming carried out a heroic rescue of a trapped Special Forces team in ...

The Fairchild F-27, the U.S.-built version of the Fokker F27 Friendship, made its first flight on November 24, 1955. Built ...

1875: The Cathedral of the Holy Name, at the corner of Superior and State streets, was dedicated with Bishop Thomas Foley presiding. The $200,000 building (more than $6 million in today’s dollars) was ...

On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began ...

In a shocking incident, a mob stormed and burned down the embassy of the United States in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 1979. The ...

USA TODAY's Washington bureau chief lays out of the impact of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

The longest government shutdown in history could conclude as soon as Wednesday, Day 43, with almost no one happy with the final result.