On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was printed on the front page of The Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote. The paper, whose name translates to “Pennsylvania State-Courier,” was an influential ...

The date Charity Clarke wrote at the bottom of a letter — Dec. 8, 1769 — now seems almost as significant as what she had written above. This was early in the American colonies’ shift toward their ...

Tomorrow, across all 50 states, millions of you will be celebrating 250 years since your country’s founding. Quite a milestone. But exceptionally this year, Canadians will not be raising a glass to ...

Editor: His name may be gone from the Kennedy Center, but the stench and rankness Donald Trump has visited upon our presidency and White House will take some time to be eradicated. He has turned the ...

A young New Yorker’s letter to her cousin in London showed how colonial women in the late 1700s were waging their own battles against the British. Charity Clarke, a 22-year-old woman who lived in New ...

The blond calf, named Melania, was a vocal interviewee. Piper Stolipher, a 15-year-old student from West Virginia, raised Melania as part of a high school agricultural program. “We were trying to come ...

We trace the classic migrant trails across the US from the Mississippi River over the Rocky Mountains and out to the Pacific Ocean and you may recognise place names, real and imagined, from Brokeback ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing a call from more than 700 rabbis to apologize for recent remarks he made disparaging the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The rabbis argue that the ...

“Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent speech about pro-Israel civic participation is dangerous, unacceptable and beneath the office he holds,” the letter read. More than 700 rabbis and cantors from across ...

Why has the American dream become so different for so many citizens? We are all in the same society and therefore should all have the same American dream that we believe in and strive for. To quote ...

Why do our spellings not match our pronunciations? Why are so many words just really weird? Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson take us on a whistle stop tour of some of the key moments that forged the ...

Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The California-based company will join mega-cap tech peers Nvidia, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft in the blue-chip index. Honeywell ...