This is a tale of two Virginias. The first was a state built on the backs of slaves and controlled by the wealthy. The second: a territory inhabited by frontiersmen and former indentured servants.

The new 12-hour documentary about the United States’ origin story will begin broadcasting Nov. 16 on WHYY and other PBS stations.

The Public Enemy frontman and hip hop pioneer discusses his long career, his fear that we’ve lost our “human GPS,” and the ...

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each ...

New citizenship test largely mirrors the 2020 civics test the Trump administration implemented, but some answers are now more ...

Formula 1 currently stages three races in the United States: the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in ...

A new study shows that the world's most damaging wildfires are happening four times more often now compared to the 1980s ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

There is a lot that is outrageous about the process that resulted in yesterday’s indictment of James Comey. I will focus here on what appears to be a fatal legal flaw. As I understand the facts, it ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The United States expects to finalise trade deals with more Southeast Asian countries in the coming months, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said during a meeting with regional ...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- The Ryder Cup's greatest appeal isn't the United States competing against Europe, the wild crowds, the biennial cadence of the event or the world-famous golf tracks that host it.

Legislators in the United States Senate have hit South Africa with a second proposed bill to compel Washington to review its relations with Pretoria, sanction the ANC, and kick the country out of AGOA ...