Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

Once viewed as peripheral players, Protestant churches have risen over the past two decades to become influential actors in ...

Iowa doesn't want to go all-in on digital maps just yet, so the state has recently released a full road map on paper; it is ...

New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles top a list of the 10 wealthiest cities in the U.S., but Texas dominates with three entries.

almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t ...

One hundred days ago, America presided over a world order it had itself crafted. That order was designed to ensure US dominance in a global system that had offered growing prosperity, stability ...

Stroll the RiverWalk, catch some live jazz, and explore the historic district of Bronzeville in a city undergoing a ...

Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the Cascadia subduction zone within the next 50 years.

Private citizens in seven states no longer have a legal path to sue under a key section of the Voting Rights Act, under a ...

Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the dense urban sprawl characterizing much of this fabled city. Yet its identity is ...

In his quest to chuck migrants out of the United States, Donald Trump has found an eager partner in Central America. On March ...