Sixty-one years ago today, long before the infamous TV moments of OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony, one man's murder conviction became the first-ever courtroom verdict to be televised.

When Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States at the age of 47, the former Illinois senator made history ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failure to install a fellow vaccine critic to a key government post is testing the limits of how far the US health secretary can go to promote his public-health agenda.