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Many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free

FRANCE 24's Olivia Salazar-Winspear sits down with American filmmaker Jeff Nichols to discuss his latest movie, "The Bikeriders". The director of "Take Shelter", "Mud" and "Loving" has a knack for depicting small-town America, with its heroes and misfits. His latest feature was inspired by the motorcycle gangs of 1960s America,…

Exciting new technologies can help the U.S. government win the war that it declared 50 years ago—but the very same government may be hampering progress.

It didn't start with libertarians either—or the 1990s.

It relates to a detailed 900-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency put together by heavyweight conservatives

But can it last? The US finally has a clutch of star riders again, but is its top-level success built on solid foundations, asks Chris Marshall-Bell

About 15.5 million people in the U.S. have used an injectable weight-loss drug, according to Gallup.

He remains a darling of the American right but the US Open champion has remade his image to match a retooled game

Stocks are at near record levels. That’s not enough for some corporate CEOs, who want more giant tax cuts

Americans nowadays would need to toil for nearly three centuries to make what their CEOs can often earn in one year.

Adolescence and young adulthood is a time of identity formation, when young people figure out who they are and who they want to be. One of the ways they do this is by considering the world around them, paying attention to social issues and starting to understand their society and…