Place names affect how people perceive, experience and emotionally connect to their surroundings in both conscious and subconscious ways. Psychologists, sociologists and geographers have explored how ...

That’s Silverton, Oregon for you – a town that somehow manages to be both a well-kept secret and a destination worth shouting about from mountaintops. Just 14 miles east of Salem, this little slice of ...

Since the mid-1850's, the Democrats and Republicans have dominated the American political scene. As pervasive as it has become, however, the two-party system is not an inherent part of the federal ...

Greenland's mineral riches are an increasing focus of the U.S. and, as the vice president recently warned, America's rivals.

As allegations of attacks and other incidents blamed on Russia piled up across Europe last year, a team of AP journalists set ...

THE MARKET MESS: The S&P 500, the “world’s most widely followed stock-market benchmark slid into a correction on Thursday, a drop that underscores how the two-year-long bull market is running ...