Some readers may be surprised to learn that, as an official job title, “czar” is as new to the U.S. as it is to Canada, ...

South African multi-billionaire Elon Musk is the most influential civilian in the entourage of Donald Trump who seems unable ...

Carthage College theater students Peyton Kuryanowicz, left, and Trevor Milne are at the center of the musical “Anastasia,” on stage through Feb. 23 at the Rhode Center for the Arts. During the first ...

With construction starting in 1981, tens of thousands of workers spent years building the world's longest single rail system ...

Exactly 124 years ago Southend welcomed its first professional tattoo artist who set up shop in the town, eager to put his ink stamp on the bodies of men, women and possibly sometimes even children.

Like the film, the stage version of "Anastasia" follows Anastasia from the streets of St. Petersburg across Europe in search ...

South Coast Repertory and HFP LIVE will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...

Eugenia Smith spent much of her life in Newport claiming to be the lost princess and youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas. But do her claims add up?

An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...

New York City made headlines in 2023 when Mayor Eric Adams appointed the metropolis’s first-ever ”rat czar.” “It was clear we needed someone solely focused on leading our rat reduction ...