California is making waves in the trucking world with a major move to revoke thousands of commercial driver’s licenses. The ...

These patterns show London’s own wealth gap is deep and growing over decades. New York’s growing gap looks increasingly similar to London’s long‑running divide. About one in five Londoners lives in ...

Spouses of U.S. citizens are facing tougher challenges than ever in the green card process. Longer wait times, stricter ...

More than a billion dollars quietly slipped through the cracks of programs meant to help people in need, and Minnesota became the unlikely center of it all. What started as routine government aid ...

California spends much more on public services per resident than Texas, with state and local spending roughly 60 % higher in ...

In 1948, Earl Shaffer came home from war with ghosts. The 29-year-old had seen too much as a radioman in the South Pacific, and his best friend Walter died at Iwo Jima. Back in Pennsylvania, Shaffer ...

Southwest Airlines is about to become a very different airline. Starting January 27, 2026, passengers will get assigned seats for the first time in the carrier’s 53-year history. The familiar A, B, ...

In summer 1950, polio hit tiny Wytheville, Virginia with brutal force. The first case struck 20-month-old Johnny Seccafico in late June. Soon after, the town of just 5,500 people had 184 cases—one in ...

In 1975, a retired military man named Peter Jefferds changed American food history on a small cove in Washington. After living abroad and falling for mussels, he picked Penn Cove on Whidbey Island to ...

Stone Mountain wasn’t just a big rock in Georgia. It was the heart of an empire. In 1887, the Venable brothers bought this mountain for $48,000 and changed American building forever. Soon, their ...

In 1858, Mobile plantation owner Timothy Meaher bet $1,000 he could sneak slaves into America, 50 years after the trade was banned. He soon hired Captain William Foster, who sailed to West Africa and ...

Most steamboats in the 1800s died young – just four or five years before fires, explosions, or river snags claimed them. Not the City of Hawkinsville. Built in Georgia in 1886, this tough wooden ...