Each autumn, the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) in Japan teams up with suppliers of American agricu...

Each year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a private U.S. charity, awards 20 to 30 gra...

The United States has appointed a senior official to advance meaningful autonomy, human rights and religi...

U.S. leadership in vaccine development and infectious disease treatment is vital to ongoing efforts to co...

The role of the American vice president was the butt of jokes in earlier times, but the job has evolved t...

As Americans hunker down at home with less appetite or ability to travel, the pages of books translated f...

The U.S. Coast Guard is leading a global effort to stop illegal fishing, which harms ecosystems and threa...

The United States announced an additional $720 million in humanitarian aid to address the Syria crisis, b...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), ratified in 1948, for the first time articulated the ri...

If you’re accused of a crime in America and can’t afford a defense attorney, the court will appoint one. ...

National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed in the United States from September 15 to October 15, celebrat...

Women play increasingly important roles in all branches of the U.S. military, with another milestone in 2...

A mural titled Our Story: Portraits of Change was recently displayed in Washington. The mosaic forms a po...

What does the history of American women’s voting look like to children from all 50 U.S. states? To cel...

Starting and registering a new business in the United States takes an average of just four days, says the...

The Global Innovation Index ranks the United States as the highest-spending country on research and devel...

Americans are mourning U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died September 18. Ginsburg...

In September 2001, after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York, the Maasai people of Ken...