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America’s Department of Justice has abruptly fired more than a dozen people who worked on its investigations into Donald ...

President-elect Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a name he said has a “beautiful ... Denali, the tallest mountain on the North American continent, is ...

Looking at a 17th-century map of North and South America, she added: "Obviously the Gulf of Mexico is recognized by the United Nations … but why don't we call this 'Mexican America'?" ...

Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images In Monday's inauguration speech, Trump set the tone for a significant change in U.S. foreign policy that could have seismic implications for America's friends and foes.

President Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” exemplifies a focus on symbolic gestures rather than addressing significant global challenges.

There’s the aforementioned Boston Common and, of course, Harvard, founded in 1636 and the very first university in North America. And back on the Freedom Trail, the phrase: oldest continuously ...

Just how bad has North American free trade been for the US? Nafta (the North American Free Trade Agreement) was thrashed out by George H.W. Bush and ratified under Bill Clinton before coming into ...

A WXCharts map shows a band of stormy weather arriving from the west on Thursday night. By 3am, it starts heading towards the North East, and by 6am it is covering our region. Winds, mainly ...