The Latest Breaking News from Americas

Indigenous People’s Day was created in reaction to atrocities carried out by Columbus and European settlers against Native American people in the Americas

Something unusual seems to be happening with dengue, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne viral disease found across swathes of tropical Africa, Asia and the Americas. As with most infectious diseases, the number of cases tends to rise and fall over the years as epidemics come and go, but recently changes seem…

When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago.

New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago

Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but a U.N. officials says international “funds simply aren’t there” for humanitarian needs

Solita Marcelli, chief investment officer for the Americas at UBS, reasons that gold's benefits as a safe haven remain intact.

Since European expansion into the Americas, white people have demonized Black people and portrayed them as undesirable, violent and hypersexual. Originally, the intent of this demonization was to legitimize the conquest and sale of African people.

UN agency records at least 686 deaths, disappearances in 2022 during record-breaking year for fatalities in Americas.

On October 14, 2023, the Americas will experience a partial solar eclipse, but from only eight U.S. states will it be possible to see the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse.

This company obtained exclusive rights to traffic African people to the Spanish colonial Americas.

A trial in Texas is set to conclude on a lawsuit seeking to end a key element of U.S. President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that allows a limited number of people from four countries in the Americas to enter on humanitarian grounds