In 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row. The move would see their sentences converted to life behind bars. It also came ahead of the White ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 21: In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered ...

A large stuffed polar bear sat at the end of a long table earlier today for Pete Alonso’s introductory press conference as the Orioles’ new first baseman. The player who inspired it’s arrival for an ...

1965: Rookie Gale Sayers — the “Kansas Comet” — scored six touchdowns at a muddy Wrigley Field, tying the NFL’s single-game ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, Merle Haggard released what would later become his first single to reach the top of the country ...