The 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran may have ended after 444 days, but both America and Iran still remain captive to a crisis that began 40 years ago. While those held hostage at the embassy ...

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage. What was expected to last days stretched into 444 humiliating days for the United States.

Iran since the Islamic revolution has employed the tactic of arresting Westerners in a bid to extract concessions from its foes, in a strategy of "hostage diplomacy" that has long presented Europe and ...

Jan. 5 marks the anniversary of an engineering feat: the beginning of construction on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This year, the Franklin High School Band was featured in that broadcast ...