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The Supreme Court ruled that Texas can redraw its electoral map to benefit Republicans. Last month a lower court struck down ...

The draw for next year’s World Cup will begin at 12 p.m. ET today, with billions of soccer fans around the globe expected to ...

In what the agency hopes will spur a major leap in American geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new mapping tool that allows anyone to peer into the earth beneath their feet. Dubbed ...

As the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rolled out a revised civics test this week for aspiring Americans, The Washington Post tested readers with some of the tougher new questions. More than ...

It’s late October, and just like that, leaves and trees in at least half of the nation have reached their peak fall colors, dazzling onlookers with shades of yellow, orange, red and purple. The ...