A historian of the United States' empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William ...

President Trump has signed several executive orders making sweeping changes to the immigration system. Immigration was one of ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn ...

President Donald Trump is renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. But how will that change go into effect – and will ...

On January 20, 2025, as Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, the nation reached a ...

Physicists from both New Zealand and Britain have been credited with splitting the atom — but there is consensus that it was ...

After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born equal under the law. That might be about to change.

Dozens of people who were born in countries outside of the United States can now call themselves Americans. On Friday, 60 ...

On a bright, brisk, Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump raised his right hand within the historic United States Capitol ...