China, in the official telling, is composed of 56 separate ethnicities. Parliamentary representatives who are Han, the dominant ethnic group, generally attend in grey and black business attire. But ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

The story of human history is far more complex than many people realize. For a long time, scientists believed that modern ...

In US-blockaded Cuba, ingenious mechanics and inventors revive old machines to survive during a time of scarcity. When the ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Ancient Handprints in an Indonesian Cave Reveal Surprising New Clues About Early Humans ...

Rather than harness this new innovation, the PNG government – specifically the PNG Ombudsman – has left its future in limbo.

Rep. Maxwell Frost and dozens of other Democrats are boycotting President Trump's State of the Union address. Lawmakers are instead attending alternative events, including the "People's State of the ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at what makes people feel proud of their country. We asked an open-ended question allowing people in 25 countries to share, in their own words, what makes them ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested Friday that her department has a broad role in election security, claiming she has the authority to identify “vulnerabilities” in the election system ...

The Department of Justice on Saturday sent Congress a list of “politically exposed persons” in the millions of files released related to its probes into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The six ...