It's crucial today to acknowledge that for 249 years thousands of Americans have fought to protect the ideas of the American ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but ...

On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The document declared the 13 American colonies free from the British rule.Prior to this, this region was ...

I believe most of us know the first few words from the Declaration of Independence, and those words are beautiful, but the ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

A left-for-dead natural gas pipeline is getting a second chance at life in New York, where state regulators this week ...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution opinion editor David Plazas is a first-time runner of the Peachtree Road Race and shares his experience preparing for the landmark event.

Five Choctaw constitutional amendments are on a July 12, 2025, ballot alongside the nation's regularly scheduled Tribal ...

Sealand, an offshore platform off England's coast, is the world's smallest state. It has just one permanent resident and its ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the tax piece of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” a core component of his agenda, would add to deficits after 2034, the end of the 10-year ...

Regional animosities have existed in Illinois since before it was admitted to the Union in 1818 as the 21st state, and only ...

A baby born to undocumented parents would be considered a U.S. citizen if born in Massachusetts, but not in New Hampshire.