On Nov. 12, 1954, a main entry point into the United States was closed as immigration station, detention center.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Stretching back to the Dutch colonial settlement in the early seventeenth century, Ellis Island became a place known for both heartache and joy, processing over 12 million immigrants to the United ...

More than 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States via Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. Also on this date: In ...

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC ...

Residencies, grants, open calls, and jobs from RISD, Ucross, the University of Michigan, and more in our monthly list of ...

A masked suspect who opened fire at the Four Seasons in Midtown Atlanta was a full-time resident of the hotel and suffered a mental breakdown when he sparked lockdowns at the $600-a-night celeb ...

NEW YORK — A pair of public figures with seemingly few things in common bonded over shared experiences with caregiving and trauma during a panel on Tuesday afternoon in New York City. Heming ...

ESPN announced today that it has opened a new ESPN Football Island in Fortnite Creative, the part of Epic Games’ blockbuster title that lets people create their own games. The island is meant to ...

Saudi Arabia has opened a new £625m luxury island resort, the "Gateway to the Red Sea". Located just three miles from the NEOM coastline, Sindalah Island in Saudi Arabia will provide easy access ...

“I welcome migrants to the United States of America with open arms. And by open arms I ... but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.