The Latest Breaking News from America

A new report from the National Urban League is citing what the civil rights and urban advocacy group says are some of the top threats to democracy for Black Americans

LGBT+ advocates condemn the 2024 candidate’s speech as threats to transgender Americans fuel GOP campaigns

Timothy Egan has written a meticulous and highly relevant account of the rise of the KKK a hundred years ago

Mark Sheehan, guitarist for hit band The Script, missed out on the American leg of the band's recent greatest hits tour, with the musician taking time away from the group for his family

'Let’s once again become the shining city on the hill, setting big goals and reestablishing the U.S. as a global leader,' writes the CTA's Gary Shapiro.

CHICAGO — The Florida-born filmmaker and Bard College film professor Kelly Reichardt makes beautiful movies about harsh conditions. In the singular early 19th century Oregon-set “First Cow” and now with her newest work, the disarming seriocomedy “Showing Up,” Reichardt pays attention to lives lived, often precariously, just above a fraying…

Historians and archeologists in South Carolina are preparing to rebury 12 unknown U.S. Revolutionary War soldiers who died in the 1780 battle at Camden

Dic Donohue focuses on the divide between America’s cops and its citizens.

A Texas newborn’s recent removal from home illustrates the cruel treatment Black families face for their childcare decisions