Long Island Congressman Nick LaLota is doubling down on his threats to withhold federal funding for infrastructure upgrades from East...

Eight days after two earthquakes devastated Venezuela, rescuers on Thursday pulled a 44-year-old man alive from the rubble of a...

Thanks to Thomas Jefferson, we know that July 4, 1776, was a pleasant day in Philadelphia with temperatures that topped...

Investor Michael Burry of “The Big Short” fame has a new short target in his sights: Caterpillar, the heavy-machinery giant...

ROME — The Vatican on Thursday said it had excommunicated top clerics in an archconservative Catholic sect as well as...

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Between family vacations, heat waves, World Cup games and America 250 events, it’s shaping up to be a scorching and...

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JERUSALEM — In his push to end the unpopular war against Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to global...

“Shine, Perishing Republic,” wrote the poet Robinson Jeffers in 1925 about a corrupt Roaring Twenties America that he feared was...