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The 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom named recently by the Biden White House are, by and large, distinguished Americans deserving of the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Protests will be taking place in Glasgow in response to the overturning of abortion laws in America with groups spreading the message that it's women's right to choose what happens with their bodies.

America’s national day became a twisted showcase of another form of US exceptionalism: its exceptionally easy access to guns and the resultant mayhem

An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back at the German artist’s often undervalued influence on early 20th-century art

‘It has just been a night of absolute horror and terror,’ reporter on scene says

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Iggy Azalea - who moved to America to chase stardom at the age of 16 - has taken to social media to reveal a series of childhood memories from her former home in Australia

One of the more shameful moments in congressional history was the passage in 1850 of the Fugitive Slave Act. It required that even slavery-free Northern states must abet that evil institution by returning enslaved people who’d escaped from the South and believed they had attained freedom. With the Supreme Court’s…

The irony is thick: A Republican president took office despite getting fewer votes than his opponent, then installed three conservative Supreme Court justices — and now that court majority has ignored America’s majority, not to mention its own precedent, to impose its ideological will on society. The fall of Roe…