Ahead of its 250th birthday, an empirical look shows the world’s leading country no longer stands so far apart

Americans weighed in on what's best about the U.S., its greatest invention, most representative food and more in latest CBS News poll.

Brooks Headley on ice cream, Kwame Onwuachi on fried chicken gizzards, Padma Lakshmi on the bowl—and 22 other arguments for the food that speaks to the nation on its 250th birthday

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted the Declaration of Independence in full. Edinburgh ...

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On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water that had been known since the mid-sixteenth century as the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” The new name could be heard in ...

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National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." The COVID-era law that effectively allowed both the Trump and Biden ...

American communities have never been more essential. In towns and cities, we get out and meet people who share our interests — or view the world in entirely different ways. Even in divisive times, we trade ideas, voice disagreements and learn from one ...

The future success of the U.S. will hinge on the ingredient that made America so powerful in the first place: immigration.