Celebrations marking America's 250th birthday contended with record-breaking heat and a severe thunderstorm on Friday.

What started as a family trip to celebrate the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C., turned into an unforgettable memory for ...

There is a moment for every American when she first encounters the Declaration of Independence. For most, it comes to her as scripture — the highest and most sacred text in the nation’s civic religion ...

That was especially the case after the War of 1812, when America reaffirmed its independence from England. The widespread belief, said Buell, was that “now we are a mighty political entity, we should ...

On 4 July, 250 years ago this week, America declared itself free from British colonial rule ...

He was widely loved and equally hated, but never dull. The life of Napoleon III offers one of history’s most colourful rides – strap in ...

As the world watches Ukrainian drones hurtle into Moscow and St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin is laser-focused on the blackened ...

It’s been decades since I’ve had a pint of ale for breakfast, but it’s ten in the morning on June 17, World Cup game day, and ...

From midnight, land border checkpoints between Spain and the British territory of Gibraltar will cease to exist ...

He paused a war on his knees, but found that peace is fragile when the clinic shelves are bare. From a boy with a cardboard ...

At least two countywide ballot measures are expected — one that would enshrine the county’s new ethics commission into the ...

What makes a sport American? Fans leave clues at a Florida pickleball party, a Charleston crawfish-eating contest and Vince ...