From space to healthcare and artificial intelligence, what could the next 250 years of the United States look like?

The president placed his image and initiatives front and center, blurring the line, critics said, between loyalty to nation and loyalty to him.

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

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

“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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The primary slogan of the Trump movement is the simple, now-iconic appeal to "Make America Great Again." Indeed, "MAGA" is so ...

America was teed up for a strong year when Mr Trump took charge in early 2025. Its robust economy should have been supercharged, especially by the boom in artificial intelligence and its consequences for the stockmarket. Instead, growth since then has been ...

An institution under attack from the Trump administration provided relief from the weather on July 4 — and a chance to ponder what it means to be American.