Today is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2025. There are 95 days left in the year.

On Sept. 27, 1996, the Taliban, the extremist Islamic movement in Afghanistan, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, the capital, and executed former President Najibullah.

In 1779, John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War’s peace terms with Britain.

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In 1964, the government publicly released the report of the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone i

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