In 1910, a woman in Salem mailed a letter to her sister. The message included mundane notes about the weather, a car ride and a dress she made, along with an ominous complaint about a swollen neck.

A religious painting that vanished from Tarpon Springs more than a century ago has finally been found — hanging on the back ...

Ancestry tests can glean into a person’s genetic past, but when Gayle Worath (@silverspirals714) from New Jersey took an Ancestry DNA test, it wasn’t because she was looking for a long-lost parent.

When America’s founding fathers set out to create a new country independent from Great Britain, they had a lot of decisions to make. One was simply what to call their invention. Today, the world may ...

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The Trump administration is proposing major changes to how the U.S. government produces census results for the next national head count in 2030. While the plan faces likely legal challenges, such ...

The 2025 reconciliation law, once called the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, requires 44 states (including DC) to condition Medicaid eligibility for adults in the ...

On November 17, 2025, the agencies announced the signing of a proposed rule to revise the definition of “waters of the United States.” This proposal would implement the Supreme Court's decision in ...

The burial came as the Smithsonian released DNA research it said provides “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings. By Jennifer Schuessler One Saturday this month, ...

First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, who was 25, had been deployed to an air base in Jordan when enemy missiles and drones lit up the sky. He is among the 18 Americans who have died since the war began. By ...

HARTINGTON, Neb. -- Family lore holds that Tony Arens and his brother, Frank, shipped a herd of cattle from their farm near Wynot, Neb. to market in Sioux City in 1910. Flush with cash from the cattle ...

The worldwide population of older adults has eclipsed that of younger children, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a new report. The percentage of the 2025 global population aged 65 and older climbed ...