The United States is helping international partners improve their waste management practices to keep plas...

Thanksgiving 2020 is arriving in the midst of a pandemic, but it won’t derail Americans’ generous impulse...

In the United States, Thanksgiving Day entails feasting on turkey at the dinner table with family and fri...

Irankarapte! —That means “hello” in the Ainu language. The construction of the Upopoy, a symbolic spac...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the graduation of the first women admitted into the U.S. Air Forc...

U.S. researchers’ contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus paved the way for new testing a...

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

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...

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

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

The University of Virginia, acknowledging its past as an institution that enslaved 4,000 people to build ...

On Labor Day, which falls on the first Monday in September in the United States, many workers took a well...

Historic events and outstanding devotion from military and civilian stalwarts have long been the inspirat...

Beyond marking the end of summer for Americans, Labor Day honors the social and economic achievements of ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitut...

Gender equality is a better predictor of a state’s peacefulness than gross domestic product, a recent Sta...

Almost 50 years ago, the world’s first independent living facility run by and for people with disabilitie...