Arlington, Va. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday would be the most "intense" day of the air war in Iran. A fire burns near the U.A.E. consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan. Social media, via Reuters ...

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.