ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The maximum-security prison where two killers pulled off a “Shawshank Redemption”-style escape has a reputation for brutality that belies the reform-minded ideals it was founded ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely rare, ...

COVID-19 was first identified in the city of Wuhan, China, in December of 2019. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March. As of July, over 12 million people have been infected ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...

As both business owners and working stiffs try to sort out what a post-COVID economy will look like, historians suggest it’s instructive to look back at the plague of all plagues, the Black Death of ...