The city perches on Aquidneck Island like a well-dressed guest at a garden party, surrounded by the sparkling waters of Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

The U.S. Coast Guard is updating its fleet, adding up to six Arctic Security Cutter (ASC) icebreaker ships as part of joint ...

It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for U.S. trade policy.

President Donald Trump's administration says its efforts over the past week are meant to stop the flow of drugs into the U.S.

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

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When it was released in 1977, Episode IV represented the arrival of something exciting and different. That thing was the science fiction and comic book scene, which had been a subculture in America ...

Pop-up book artist Colette Fu on her books based on her travels to China Pop-up book artist Colette Fu on her tattooed lady book and her book on the long haired women in the terraced rice fields.

Wisconsin has quietly emerged as the latest front in the national redistricting fight — and a never-before-used legal process seems likely to determine the state's congressional lines in the midterm ...

Every few years I am reminded of one of my cardinal rules of journalism: Whenever you see elephants flying, don’t laugh, take notes. Because if you see elephants flying, something very different is ...

The American Craft Beer Hall of Fame is proud to announce the nominees for its 2026 class of Inductees. Founded to honor and preserve the legacy of individuals who have profoundly shaped the nation’s ...

Amid grinding losses at sea, a wartime government approved one of the most bizarre engineering schemes ever attempted: a floating airbase carved from ice and reinforced with wood pulp. The plan called ...