It’s a crystal clear idea: citizenship and equal protection under the law for everyone born or naturalized in the United States. Beyond that, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution ...

The U.S. initially acquired the rights to build and operate the Panama Canal in 1903 through the Hay–Bunau–Varilla Treaty which gave the U.S. a 10-mile wide strip of land for a one-time payment of $10 ...

President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...

STATE48! It has a nice ring to it and it looks good on a t-shirt. Beyond the marketing though, that “48” represents a long ...

World Wetlands Day is celebrated annually on February 2 in honor of the signing of the Ramsar Convention. This holiday is ...

On Feb. 2, 2013, former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle was fatally shot along with a friend, Chad ...

On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe ...

Today in History for Feb. 2: ...

1802: The first leopard in captivity is exhibited in Boston, US. 1823: Gioachina Rossini’s opera “Semiramide” premieres in ...

The United States and Israel both wield “birthright” as a tool of settler colonialism—one through exclusion, the other ...

Migrants wearing face masks and shackles on their hands and feet sit on a military aircraft at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Tx., ...