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Food is also symbolic for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. In the North, Banh Chung, a sticky rice cake with banana leaves, is ...

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

The Alaska House has voted to urge President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest ...

In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the Great Seal of the United States and Americans just assumed it was our national bird ...

From its time as the temporary United States capital to its collection of renowned sculptures, Philadelphia is home to iconic ...

It is amazing that the State Department’s “one flag” directive could be controversial. Even more amazing is how we got here ...

Elon Musk’s critics blast his ‘Fascist salute’ at inaugural event while Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wears ...

Wadee became a symbol for anti-Palestinian violence when ... Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy from Plainfield, was stabbed to death Oct. 14, 2023, in an alleged hate crime.

But it was Nast’s revival of the Democratic donkey in his Jan. 18, 1870 cartoon, shown above — “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” — that popularized the symbol. The cartoon depicts ...