Bone-Chilling Cold Returns to the Midwest in the Wake of a Storm That Soaked the East Coast A storm that swept up the East Coast that brought torrents of rain and high winds caused some misery for New England ski resort operators
In 1774, Colonists form First Continental Congress as Britain closes down Boston Harbor and deploys troops in Massachusetts. In 1775 George Washington leads colonist Continental Army to fight against British rule. In 1776, on the 4th July, Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence end...
Associated PressJan. 21, 2025 New York Governor Proposes Banning Cellphones in Schools Starting Next Fall Students throughout New York state might have to give up their cellphones during school hours starting next fall under a proposal announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul ...
How to find wild adventures across the U.S., from hiking Hawaii’s highest peak to snowshoeing amid Michigan’s frozen waterfalls.
The contiguous 48 states share a border with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The Pacific Ocean bounds them on the west, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. The contiguous United States is also known as the Lower 48. Alaska, included in...
A state of the northeast United States. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, it was visited by Dutch navigators after 1614, and in 1635 colonists from Massachusetts Bay began to settle in the Connecticut River valley. In 1639 the colony adopted the Fundamental Orders, a constitution based on...
The United States of America is the world's third largest country in size and nearly the third largest in terms of population.
Norway was the top European country on the list, between Massachusetts and New Jersey. Here’s the Nelson data, which shows that only oil-rich Norway and pro-market Switzerland look good. Some readers may be questioning the use of numbers from 2014 and 2015. That’s a reasonable suspicion ...
Renters can expect to find the highest one-bedroom rents mostly in coastal states, with Hawaii taking the lead.
during which time the nature of slavery was thoroughly debated. Finally, in March 1820, Speaker of the HouseHenry Claysecured passage of an acceptablecompromise. The District ofMainewas separated from Massachusetts and permitted to enter the Union as a free state, Missouri was admitted as a slave...