MANILA, Philippines — Every year on June 12, Filipinos across the nation and the world celebrate Araw ng Kalayaan, commemorating the Philippines’ independence after more than three centuries of ...

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

Teachers spend their careers drilling facts about the Declaration of Independence into schoolchildren’s heads. We learn about the Founding Fathers and the Revolutionary War and taxation without ...

America is turning 250, and it all started with our founding document. How many facts about the Declaration of Independence do you know? This summer marks the 250th birthday of the United States, and ...

Volunteers are needed to transcribe tens of thousands of pension files, revealing personal accounts of wartime experiences and post-war life. "It's a national tribute." Photographer Mikel Conrad has ...

The Declaration of Independence was unanimously adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the date which is now known as Independence Day in the US. Just over a month later, Irish and Irish ...

For its “Irreplaceable America” list in honor of the 250th birthday of the U.S., the World Monuments Fund chose endangered historic sites of innovation, creativity and spirituality to publicize and ...

On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course ...

This story was originally published on July 3, 2019. W hen Martina McBride’s “Independence Day” was released to country radio in April 1994, it was easy to mistake the country song for a U-S-A! U-S-A!

Abstract: While celebrating the 21st year since the very first IEEE 802.11 “legacy” 2 Mbit/s wireless local area network standard, the latest Wi-Fi newborn is today reaching the finish line, topping ...

Abstract: Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number of ...