Wikimedia Commons/Jacek Halicki Colt’s Patent Arms Company Collapse in Paterson Samuel Colt got his big break in 1836 with a patent for a gun that could fire multiple shots. He soon built the Patent ...

Under pressure from the government and each other, some of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups are amassing homemade mortars, land mines, rocket-propelled grenades and bomber drones.

On a scorching September 2007 Baghdad afternoon, a 19-man convoy of four armored Blackwater trucks rolled into Nisour Square, one of the city’s most congested and volatile intersections. What ...

When the USS Hornet sunk in World War II, a tractor used to move aircraft went down too. Now a recovery mission is being ...