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Famous summits from U.S. presidential history

Rural health transformation program won’t make up for federal budget cuts, experts agree

US President Donald Trump signs the 'Big Beautiful Bill Act' at the White House in Washington, DC on July 4, 2025.

Are these 'eco-cities’ the future of sustainable design?

Aerial photo taken on July 31, 2021 shows a vegetation buffer belt at the Huangtaihu Lake water conservation scenic spot in Qian'an City of north China's Hebei Province, as an example of "sponge city construction." Following the principle of precipitation reserving, permeating and clarifying in natural ways, the local authority set out to build a city that "breathes."

Think your identity is safe? Your personal info might be more public than you think.

Person looking up a map view of a property's location using a laptop and a phone.

Trick or thief? The frightening ways identities are stolen in 2025

Anonymous man with a Halloween pumpkin head illustrated as emerging from a laptop.

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4 charts that show how much the role of phones has changed in the last 60 years

Photo illustration of a rotary phone and a person using a smartphone against a teal background.

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6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth

A crowd at the 13th Annual Juneteenth celebration in Prospect Park Brooklyn on June 20, 2022.

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Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago

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Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis abroad and racial prejudice at home

Mass evacuation of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island, Seattle, Washington, 30th March 1942 boarding trains under wartime presidential Executive Order 9066.

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25 photos of what Paris looked like the last time it hosted the Olympics

Eiffel Tower painter waves for a photograph.

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7 moments of Asian American and Black American solidarity

Frederick Douglass portrait; excerpt from speech; Lim Lip Hong Family Portrait from Chinese Exclusion Act investigative file

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7 Asian Americans whose discoveries changed the world

An illustration showing five silhouetted figures in front of medical imagery.

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10 of the biggest real-life casino heists of all time

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Women on quarters: Who they are and why it matters

Althea Gibson kisses the cup she was awardedafter winning the French International Tennis Championships in Paris in 1956.

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16 women abolitionists you may not know about

Lydia Maria Child reads a book on a front porch.