Chris Lavergne

Swimming in the Seine was illegal for over 100 years. This summer, Parisians are wading into the same water the Olympic triathletes raced through, no ticket and no reservation required. It used to be normal.

The king in question is Servius Tullius, the sixth ruler of Rome, shown in the frescoes as the warrior Mastarna freeing an Etruscan nobleman.

Maher accepted the 27th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday night, the same honor the White House had publicly insisted he would never receive.

Speaking at a Communist Party Central Committee plenary in Havana on June 17, Díaz-Canel said price caps “failed to contain inflation,” made products disappear into illegal markets, drove prices higher, gutted tax revenue, and created “an impossible race between real…

Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Thursday that would give the government a 50% ownership stake in any AI company with more than $200 million in annual sales.

Female screwworm flies lay eggs in any open wound, even a scratch or a newborn calf’s navel, and the hatched maggots feed on living tissue until the animal dies if untreated.

The Height of Buildings Act of 1910 limits most structures in Washington, D.C., to roughly 130 feet, a rule rooted in early 20th-century fire safety concerns and a desire to preserve the city’s low, horizontal, neoclassical character, one dominated by…

The new Air Force One is a $400 million luxury jet the U.S. accepted free from the Qatari government, and Trump unveiled it Friday inside a hangar at Joint Base Andrews.

Michelle Obama paused mid-speech to make her husband look her in the eye. “Barack, you gotta look at me,” she said.