It has been 70 years since Edward R. Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour.” ...

Getty Images/iStock photo A North Dakota man was sentenced to prison after officials said he stabbed a man to death over $40 ...

As Amy Helen Bell points out in “Under Cover of Darkness,” her history of murder in London during the war years, there was little appetite to dwell on brutal crimes when the amount of destruction ...