In the United States, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right of people to assemble peaceably ...

For hundreds of years Americans have taken to the streets to say, “This is what we believe, and we will b...

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The movement to safeguard the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people i...

As the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 15 that gay and transgender employees are protected by federal an...

American medical students are volunteering to help COVID-19 health care workers manage the home front. ...

A Smithsonian Institution exhibit titled Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World has been expanded in it...

As the effects of the new coronavirus have hurt retail spending, economists are closely watching the beha...

On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that nig...

Scholars around the world who have been part of the State Department’s Fulbright Program are using their ...

Let’s be clear: There is no vaccine yet to prevent COVID-19. But there are swindlers around the world ...

The United States’ release of tens of thousands of coronavirus studies is enabling experts worldwide to u...

American businesses, both large and small, are rapidly shifting their production lines to respond to dema...

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. This photo gallery features a few of the countless Asian Am...

In March, when Diana Berrent became one of the first people in Port Washington, New York, to test positiv...

When Americans look for data on COVID-19, the U.S. public health system delivers. The Centers for Dise...

Memorial Day honors America’s military men and women who lost their lives in service to their country. ...

Exhausted in 1869 after nursing U.S. soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, Clara Barton followed her doctor’s a...