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A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of 1776. The scene they witnessed was terrifying.

The largest expeditionary force in British history sailed into the American harbor. Over 300...Read more

Whiteness appears to be an official immigration credential in the eyes of the United States government.

The Trump administration in late 2025 slashed the annual cap on refugee admissions to 7,500 for budget year...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two Los Angeles-based relatives of a deceased Iranian leader were arrested by immigration agents after one of them extolled Iranian leadership and denigrated the United States and both repeatedly posted ...Read more

Four astronauts are on a journey around the moon, a mission that offers a rare chance to see our world from a distance, and ourselves more clearly.

One of the reasons people appreciate travel is that it offers a different...Read more

I know with all the bad news in the world right now the last thing you probably want to hear about are renewed threats to our democracy, but unfortunately the gravity is real.

In February, the U.S. House passed the so-...Read more

WASHINGTON — A small federal agency responsible for studying how health care works for patients is largely dormant despite receiving millions of dollars from Congress for research into antibiotic resistance, health care ...Read more

When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, he dismissed as “nonsense” the president’s suggestion that the federal government should reconsider funding programs such as Medicare ...Read more

In ancient Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo, both children of Zeus. She is joining her brother in the pantheon of American achievement and of scientific history.

This weekend, the Artemis II mission ...Read more

After deadly riots swept Los Angeles in 1992 in response to a jury’s acquittal of four police officers who savagely beat motorist Rodney King, he begged for peace.

“People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get...Read more

Pope Leo XIV used part of his Palm Sunday message to castigate the United States for attempting to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power and threatening the world with mass destruction. In doing so, the “American Pope�...Read more

What are we not talking about after a month of war in Iran? The news will continue to question the strategy or lack thereof. It will count casualties, rising prices, the remaining days until November — but what it will ...Read more

More than a month into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, ordinary Iranians are living under a double siege: external bombardment and internal repression. For some, this war has brought only fear — fear of what comes ...Read more

Because my wife and I want to visit Paris, I started casually studying French, first with Pimsleur CDs from the library, then by watching videos online (I still can’t understand half of what they’re saying, ...Read more

We’ve seen this pattern before.

A U.S. missile strike. An initial statement emphasizing precision. Then, later, reports that civilians — including many children — were among the dead. In Afghanistan, through the ...Read more

The cover of National Geographic’s March issue featured a tractor tire dangling from a thread. Not metaphorically, but literally, because the thread is spider silk — five times stronger than steel but produced by ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When this year began, the field of candidates vying to represent Philadelphia’s 3rd Congressional District was sprawling. A dozen contenders spent months campaigning and raised hundreds of thousands of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Why would an immigrant living here illegally risk jail and deportation by trying to vote? That has always puzzled me.

And why would a political pro waste time and money soliciting votes from ...Read more

Arthur C. Clarke’s third law says that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In an age when war and robots are making energy increasingly scarce, a technological breakthrough that ...Read more