‘Trophy trees’ have become the new status symbol for America’s uber-rich, with wealthy homeowners paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the prized plants shipped into their yards on helicopters and flatbed trucks. Miami-based landscaper Walter Acree says he has spent
Long before the verdict came through, Minneapolis was already a fortress city, battened down and steeling itself for the storm. Public buildings are isolated behind concrete barricades, high steel fences, barbed wire and moats filled with razor wire. Streets full of boarded-up
Monica Gill – who teaches AP Government in Loudoun County, Virginia – told Fox News this week that the school district’s push for ‘inclusion’ has ironically fueled further division in her upper-crust community A public school teacher in America’s wealthiest county is
‘A parallel universe’: From juke joints to feed stores, the humble beauty of America’s forgotten roadside buildings celebrated in a mesmerising new photo book Photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley took pictures of over 100 forgotten buildings across the U.S They published
TEXAS, April 8, 2021 – A gunman opened fire at the cabinet-making plant in Texas where he worked, killing one person and wounding six others before he was taken into custody. CALIFORNIA, March 31, 2021 – Four people were killed, one of
President Joe Biden’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has said that white supremacy is ‘weaved’ into America’s ‘founding documents’ because of the ‘original sin on slavery’. Speaking on Wednesday, US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield pledged to prioritize efforts to
Bernie Madoff, the man behind the biggest and most devastating Ponzi scheme in history that robbed tens of thousands of victims worldwide of $65 billion, went from a high-flying Wall Street financier to living out his dying days in a North Carolina
President Joe Biden will defend his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after al Qaeda’s attack, saying it is ‘time to end America’s longest war.’ ‘I am now the fourth American president to preside over an
At least 55 of the largest companies in the US paid NO federal taxes last year and many including Nike and FedEx avoided U.S. tax liability for three years despite making billions A new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic
There are 63 national parks in America – but within them, a seemingly infinite variety of landscapes. Here we showcase every single one with breathtaking photographs and in the captions tell you about their most fascinating features. We invite you to scroll