As the strains of "The Unclouded Day" echo back and forth inside the Palmer Chapel, the sound strikes me as perhaps the finest example of a cappella hymn-singing I've ever heard. That's no surprise.

On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Czar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

Ciara, the Grammy-winning singer, has made history by becoming one of the first to receive Beninese citizenship through a ...