The nascent country adopted its name 250 years ago, on 9, 1776. Americans have debated the moniker ever since. One ...

President Trump recently posted maps with the state of New Mexico relabeled as “New America.” But though people now use “US” ...

WASHINGTON, DC: A viral X post claims that President Donald Trump has declared North and Central America part of the United ...

The preferred name by which Americans referred to their country changed abruptly in 1898 as a result of the nation’s burgeoning colonialism, from ‘the United States’ to ‘America.’ ByChadd Scott, ...

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On Saturday, July 4, the United States of America celebrates our Semiquincentennial. We have been an independent republic for 250 years. That is a long time but not for certain countries. Egypt, India ...

Whenever and however America’s war with Iran ends, it has both exposed and exacerbated the dangers of our new, fractured, multipolar reality—driving deeper wedges between the United States and former ...

Many things have changed in the 250 years since the United States was founded, but one thing that hasn't changed that much is our Constitution. In the 238 years since it was ratified, Congress has ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has demonstrated—if any more proof were needed—that the days when allies could rely on the United States to uphold world order are over. For the 80 ...

To mark 250 years of the United States’ independence, we’re celebrating the grandest, wildest, strangest bits of geography and culture all across an eclectic country. Maine’s rugged Quoddy Head ...