Ben Whittaker produced a savage Round 1 knockout win against Benjamin Gavazi on Saturday in his first fight with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing. Whittaker (10-0-1, 7 KOs) didn't take long to establish ...

If you’re know-it-all cousin tries to tell you Benjamin Franklin wanted the country’s national symbol to be a turkey, rather than a Bald Eagle, between spoonfuls of mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving, ...

‘Franklin is endlessly, endlessly interesting. He is the only Founding Father who evidently had a sense of humor, who was evidently human, who evidently had a sex life.” No, this is not a quip from a ...

The most widely traveled American of his time, the founding father learned a thing or two along the way. American statesman Benjamin Franklin crossed the Atlantic eight times in his long life. This ...

On the whole, the Founding Fathers, those towering patriarchs, fared poorly when it came to sons. George Washington and James Madison had none. Thomas Jefferson’s only legitimate one died in infancy.

One day, nearly a decade ago, Mike Carroll sat down for a quotidian meeting of city officials at the Philadelphia Streets Department. Next to him was Kathryn Ott Lovell, then the director of the Parks ...

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FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. (WGN) — A man was shot and killed by ICE on Friday morning in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park, and an agent suffered severe injuries after being dragged by a vehicle. ICE ...

As Penn celebrates its 285th anniversary, The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with scholars to understand the extent of Benjamin Franklin's involvement in the University and how his vision has shaped its ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

The parents of the baby girl whose murdered body was found inside a trash can at a Franklin park in 1994 have finally been identified. Franklin Police, joined by the Johnson County Coroner’s Office ...