The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety. The rebels held a rally at the city stadium in ...

Vice President JD Vance recently cited medieval Catholic theology in justifying the immigration crackdown under President ...

The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President Donald Trump was just a year o ...

When Clarissa Aljentera wanted to teach her 6-year-old son about the impact of Filipinos in Chicago, she ended up in what ...

An independent news group has uncovered a network of X accounts with Chinese names that have been spreading fake news and ...

The U.S. initially acquired the rights to build and operate the Panama Canal in 1903 through the Hay–Bunau–Varilla Treaty which gave the U.S. a 10-mile wide strip of land for a one-time payment of $10 ...

This week on February 6, 1964, former President Emilio F. Aguinaldo passed away at the Veterans Memorial Hospital at the age of 94. Aguinaldo was a controversial figure in history who one of my former ...

US President Donald Trump claimed that “national unity is now returning to America” in an inaugural speech marked by vows to ...

During the pandemic lockdown, I culled my library to keep only what I needed for reference. I arranged my notes and papers, ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of returning home—and what it means to be granted a second chance.