The list of “no shows” at the two-week COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan is long. Smaller countries, including island ...

From apple pie on Thanksgiving Day to Johnny Appleseed stories passed down for generations, the apple has been a symbol of American culture. But the first apples actually originated halfway around the ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From ...

Police in Italy say they have busted a major criminal art-forging network and seized 2,100 fraudulent works peddled by the ring. The artwork had been attributed to Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, British ...

Today is considered New Year’s Day on Mars, a convention that stems from one Martian year equaling 687 days on Earth. Host Carolyn Beeler explains how astronomers and space agencies track the passage ...

The names being considered for key national security positions in President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration are mostly familiar: Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Representative ...

A new play that premiered in New York last month tells the story of a pair of cousins — one from America, the other from ...

The list of “no shows” at the two-week COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan is long: China, the US, Germany, Japan, Australia, France, Brazil and Mexico are all sitting this one out. Someone who did ...

A cruise line is trying to woo Americans who are disappointed with the US election results. Lasting for the conspicuous duration of four years, the new offering is called the “Skip Forward” cruise.

A Dutch court has overturned a 2021 case that ordered the oil giant Shell to cut its greenhouse emissions down by 45% before 2030. The 2021 ruling against the fossil fuel industry giant was considered ...

Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, was optimistic about the potential of the Paris climate agreement to effectively tackle climate change after it was ...

Judith Jamison, of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died over the weekend. In 1967, the US State Department sent Jamison on a memorable tour of several African nations to perform and establish ...