The 1950s were marked by many firsts: the first general elections held between 1951 and 1952; in 1951, the first Indian ...

The Federal Reserve kicked off its campaign to lower interest rates with a larger-than-typical half percentage-point cut, ...

But as everyone watched Armstrong playing Mack the Knife and When it's Sleepytime Down South, the CIA-backed Colonel Mobutu had Lumumba under house arrest. Lumumba escaped, was arrested again and ...

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where myriad existing problems make stemming the spread particularly hard.