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UNITED NATIONS (TNS) — President Donald Trump delivered a forceful inaugural speech to a packed U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, a sprawling 42-minute address that ranged from warlike to flowery and that challenged some long-cherished tenets of U.S. foreign policy.

Five years after starting his first job with a landscaping crew in the suburbs of Seattle, Fredi Dubon decided he had enough and quit. The workdays were long, sometimes 12 hours, but a bigger problem was having to inhale exhaust…

President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing the North, and sends U.S. troops to the South in order to prevent a collapse, as a military assistance and advisory mission becomes a full-scale American war. The subject will be covered in part three…

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Trump administration’s plan for shrinking and diminishing protections at America’s national monuments appears far more expansive than previously reported, targeting 10 of the nation’s most ecologically sensitive landscapes and marine preserves for diminished protection.

President John F. Kennedy wrestles with American involvement in South Vietnam as a communist insurgency gains strength. The subject will be covered in part two of Ken Burns' new 10-episode documentary, "The Vietnam War." The episode, "Riding the Tiger" will…

BEIRUT (TNS) — With his political survival all but assured, Syria’s President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma, are back to acting presidential, making bread at a bakery in Hama province, checking out a dairy in Tartus, and comforting wounded…

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Only a handful of states require all employers to screen workers to make sure they are in the country legally, but that could change soon.

AUSTIN, Texas (TNS) — Ilya Finkelstein chuckles when recounting the origins of the project that landed the University of Texas scientist and his colleagues in the prestigious academic journal Cell.

NAPLES, Fla. (TNS) — During a hurricane in 1900, a storm surge rose out of the Gulf of Mexico and annihilated Galveston, Texas, killing about 8,000 men, women and children.

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (TNS) — Matthew Warshauer was lecturing on the Civil War at the Southington Public Library one September a few years ago when he looked outside and saw a banner not unlike thousands of others across the country:…