Sixty years ago this summer, Congress enacted the nation-transforming Voting Rights Act. Soon, however, Congress and a ...

Despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and US intelligence agencies assessments that they do not believe that Iran was building a nuclear weapon, Tehran has had to endure terrorist ...

In Africa's turbulent Sahel region, the Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM jihadist group is expanding its influence by repeated massacres, food distribution and signing pacts with local authorities to position ...

Amid blistering triple-digit temperatures Tuesday, Kenefick Park in the city’s North End was full of people trying to stay cool. Anita Rios watched as her two kids played in the splash pad’s ...

Mr. Mamdani, the likely winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, drew tens of thousands of new voters to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently zeroed in on the Bullet Cluster—delivering highly detailed images that show a greater abundance of extremely faint and distant galaxies than ever ...

Whole-genome analysis of urban Sinhalese and Adivasi clans in Sri Lanka reveals migratory history and genetic relationships.

Zohran Mamdani's lead in first choices in New York City's ranked-choice mayoral primary, and his inevitable victory when ...

As Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka’s first female Executive President, turns 80 on June 29, a timely question ...

In the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, Indigenous Jumma peoples have long contested the renaming of villages and ...

The map shows the distribution of Smithsonian Correspondents throughout the world from the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, 1895, the map is found after page 32. From its earliest years, the ...