Greenwich's Linda McMahon, the nominee for secretary of education, said she would 'reorient the department' at her ...

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A look at the future of the Sundance Film Festival and six of the films that stood out in the crowd this year.

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Rapid growth and development in Berkeley County is causing concern for a Native American tribe as they lose access to sacred land. A treaty signed Wednesday by 10 South Carolina tribes aims to address ...

On Dec. 4, the two-year struggle by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protect their sacred land and water ended – at least for now – when the Obama administration denied the easement ...

In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...

Until March 16, the Parisian institution presents "Faire Parler les Pierres" ("Making the Stones Speak"), an exhibition devoted to the statues of the famous edifice. There's nothing grandiloquent ...

We celebrate 11 of the most beautiful mountains in the world: from the Alaskan wilds and remote Greenland to the giants of ...