On the same date every year, Americans dig out our red, white and blue, dust off the grill we haven't used since last July, and celebrate our nation's independence.
Donald Trump is increasingly staking out hawkish positions on Israel -- and that has some conservative activists thinking they have an opening to pull the GOP platform further to the right on the issue.
In the two centuries since our nation's founders wrote of their goal to "form a more perfect union" in the U.S. Constitution, Americans have made more than 11,000 attempts to change it.
With the US and Russia playing crucial parts in global politics, who would Vladimir Putin vote for this upcoming presidential election? Nina Khrushcheva writes.
In addition to barbecuing, beer-drinking, and fireworks-watching, we'd like to suggest another way to celebrate July 4th: Taking a quiz on American history and politics!
At least five people were killed and 25 others were injured when a bus ran a red light on a Florida highway and collided with a tractor trailer, the Florida Highway Patrol said Saturday.
A spinning, solar-powered spacecraft as wide as a basketball court will arrive at Jupiter on July 4 to study the giant planet and to take the highest-resolution images of Jupiter in history.
Members of the New York Police Department bomb squad are investigating an explosion in Central Park that left a man with severe leg injuries, police said Sunday.
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst is among the candidates being considered to become Donald Trump's running mate, a source with knowledge of Trump's vice presidential selection process tells CNN.
Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowsky dismissed Sunday the controversy over an image Trump tweeted Saturday as "political correctness run amok."
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is now referring questions about whether he is being vetted as a potential running mate for Hillary Clinton to her campaign -- a shift from as recently as two weeks ago, when he flatly denied he was in the running for the job.
