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The president’s speech last week was a testament to the extraordinary danger democracy is facing

LOS ANGELES — The landslide, triggered by Tony Romo, has rumbled into America's living room.

“We’re showing why representation matters and charting a path for an inclusive America,” said interior secretary Deb Haaland

It's complicated. That's how a couple might explain a relationship that's closer than its history would suggest it should be. It also could describe the relationship between the United States and Britain. Witness the admiration for Queen Elizabeth II expressed by many Americans after her death Thursday.

“America is back” and will lead the way in semiconductor manufacturing, President Joe Biden declared at the Intel groundbreaking in Ohio.

“Maus” cartoonist Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award this fall, a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

WASHINGTON — When a comparison was made between the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago and a similar debacle in Vietnam 46 years earlier, President Joe Biden and his administration recoiled.

In the spring of 1953, women from across the United States traveled to Britain – for many, it was their first time abroad.

In November 1951, Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip made their first visit to the United States, 12 years after the princess’s father King George VI had become the first reigning British monarch ever to set foot on American soil, colonial times included.