After the tumult and triumphs of 2020, here are the achievements that shaped the first year following the country’s racial reckoning. Erin Schaff/The New York Times (Kamala Harris); Scott McIntyre for ...

The year’s most exciting discoveries include a Viking “piggy bank,” a lost Native American settlement and a secret passageway hidden behind a bookshelf Cool Finds Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is now officially over, ending a period in which eight storms smacked into the U.S. coast. With 21 named storms, 2021 ranks as the third most active year in history, ...

After 2020 brought the most devastating global pandemic in a century and a national reckoning with systemic racism, 2021 ushered in a number of welcome developments, including Covid vaccines, the ...

The holiday, observed on June 19, is also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, and has been celebrated by communities across the country for more than a century. But Juneteenth didn't become ...

President Biden, in 2021, became the first U.S. president to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day officially. That year, he proclaimed to observe the second Monday in October as a day to honor Native ...

The gift is twice the amount Ms. Scott contributed to the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund in 2021.

2021 Ryder Cup results, scores, standings: United States dominates Europe for biggest win in modern history The United States has won back-to-back Ryder Cups on home soil for the first time since 1979 ...