For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself.

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Monday on the News Hour, President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announce a new proposal to end the war in Gaza and issue an ultimatum to Hamas. Investigators comb through the aftermath ...

In this first edition of The World newsletter, we explore why a president who campaigned against “foreign wars” is sending warships to Venezuela. By Katrin Bennhold I am the host of The World. The ...

The documentarian reflects on the ideas that drove our nation’s founding — and how they echo today. By Ken Burns and David Leonhardt Produced by Jillian Weinberger President Trump’s threats to ...

Minutes after Pete Hegseth promised to untie the hands of the military and unleash violence, Donald Trump named the cities he’d go to war with next. Trump told senior generals and admirals they will ...

Getting there is definitely part of the fun with a fall foliage train ride. And because you don't have to navigate busy highways to take in the fall colors, you can just sit back and enjoy the ...

Proposals that would have funded the government failed in the Senate on Tuesday. Both Republican and Democratic proposals that would have funded the government past Tuesday failed in the Senate during ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “We should use some of the dangerous cities as training grounds” for the military, President Trump said Tuesday, ...

With next week’s publication of his ninth novel, “Shadow Ticket,” Thomas Pynchon’s secret 20th century is at last complete. For many of us, Pynchon is the best American writer since F. Scott ...

Yes, it's becoming more and more difficult to define "normal," but the speeches that President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered to the nation's top military brass on ...

ELY, Minn. — Becky Rom has been fighting to protect the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since she was in middle school. As the granddaughter of a miner and the daughter of a pioneer in ...