On Dec. 5, 1848, in an address to Congress, President James K. Polk sparked the Gold Rush of ’49 by confirming that gold had ...

Inside Western Cartridge Co.’s 1948 Thanksgiving feast for workers ...

On Dec. 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first Black president, died at age 95.

Peruvian presidential hopeful Rafael Belaunde escaped bloodied but not seriously hurt Tuesday from an attack by gunmen on his ...

Peruvian presidential aspirant, Rafael Belaunde, on Tuesday narrowly escaped an assassination attempt after gunmen opened ...

The SUV carrying the 50-year-old politician was targeted by gunmen on a motorbike, with bullets shattering the front window.

A court in Peru sentenced former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to more than 11 years in prison on Thursday. In a ...

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for corruption. The decision was ...

On November 20, 2000, the president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, submitted his resignation via fax after more than a decade in power. Fujimori then fled to Japan (where he also held citizenship) to ...

In a recent study, Dr. Weronika Tomczyk and her colleagues conducted a zooarchaeological and isotopic study of ancient Andean condor bones from an archaeological site Castillo de Huarmey, providing ...

New research reveals Peru’s Band of Holes once functioned as a marketplace before becoming Inca accounting infrastructure. Drone imaging and microbotanical analyses found maize and reed residues, ...