When Christopher Columbus sailed westward from Spain in 1492, he did not expect to find paradise. He was looking for a shortcut to Asia, a new route for spices and gold. Instead, he stumbled onto ...

Monday marks Columbus Day, in honor of Christopher Columbus — but not all will be celebrating the Italian explorer. Back in 1492, Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, where he stumbled upon the ...

At first, they called it “Explorer Special” and then Columbus’ coaches realized it might be a little too obvious what was coming if they started yelling it out around the goal line in a key moment, so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christopher Columbus, whose real name was Cristoforo Colombo, was born in 1451 in the Republic of Genoa, part of what is now Italy ...

President Donald Trump renewed the focus of Columbus Day to be celebrated on the second Monday of October, reclaiming the explorer’s “extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue,” ...

Monday's federal holiday dedicated to Christopher Columbus is highlighting the ongoing divide between those who view the explorer as a representative of Italian American history and others horrified ...

TRENTON – A statue of Christopher Columbus, the fabled Italian explorer revered by some for helping colonize the Americas and reviled by others for killing and enslaving Native Americans, was removed ...

The imposing bronze statue of Christopher Columbus rears on the banks of the Delaware River, the navigator striking a heroic pose as if on the windswept deck of a caravel, gazing determinedly over ...

A new DNA analysis of remains belonging to direct descendants of Christopher Columbus has uncovered a history-changing truth ...