Opinion: How sad, to celebrate the 250th birthday of the great American democratic experiment and no longer be the envy of ...

For example, a bee’s brain contains only about 1 million neurons, compared with some 86 billion in the case of humans. But each of those bee neurons may be as structurally complex as an oak tree.

Employees at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which funds basic research, have followed the example of workers at ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

A declaration of trust is the document that establishes a legal trust. It also defines the major elements of the entity, such as the beneficiaries and trustees. Once a trust has been established ...

In drafting the Declaration, Jefferson said he did not aim “at originality of principle or sentiment” but had merely given “an expression of the American mind.” John Adams observed the ...

In a joint statement, the countries demand that Israel end its war on Gaza. Here’s who signed and what they said.

Let’s take the Declaration of Independence and its lead author Jefferson as an example. There’s no question about the declaration’s iconic status in American history.

In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal. What is unfolding right now in California—with hundreds of Marines ...

Trump said in the Rose Garden that the move amounted to a “Declaration of Economic Independence.” AFP via Getty Images “In 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income ...

A sampling of other Declaration of Independence signers who served in the Continental Congress in York between Sept. 30, 1777, and June 28, 1778.