President-elect Trump has revived calls for the United States to buy Greenland and complains of high fees at the Panama Canal ...

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to ...

The U.S. military says two U.S. Navy pilots have been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident.

Congress has pushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

In ”Every Valley,” Charles King compellingly recounts how the composer, in a mere three weeks, wrote the soaring music for ...

As Syrians seek to recover from decades of a brutal dictatorship, they want to learn what happened to missing loved ones. For ...

Despite the secular trappings of an imported holiday, the Chinese have devised a type of giving that captures the Christmas ...