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International Boundary Monument 258 stands as a historic symbol at the border between the U.S. and Mexico, marking the birth of California's shape.
A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.
The maps allow us to see what the most forested places in the U.S. have in common. Zooming in on a few different examples, the first thing you’ll notice is that tree cover depends heavily on the local ...
Colorado has mostly straight borders, which makes it look like a box on maps. These lines follow latitude and longitude, so ...
The Ho Chi Minh Campaign Museum honors the final days of the war with one of Vietnam’s rarest national treasures.
In total, China exported $436 billion worth of goods to the US in 2023, making the United States the largest importer of Chinese products. According to data from the Office of the United States ...
States facing budgetary pressures have few good options to keep millions of people from losing health coverage if Congress lets federal funding for Obamacare expire at the end of the year. That ...
“When you punch the United States of America,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, “President Trump is going to punch back harder.” After Beijing responded to U.S ...
(Leave it to the Commission to build some suspense.) Overall, EU duties are set to hit up to $13.5 billion worth of exports from red states, according to POLITICO's analysis of 2024 trade data. Let’s ...
Pre-orders for the highly-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 went live around the world on April 9, except for fans in the United States. However, a few days after Nintendo's big announcement ...
The states where they're expected to emerge this year are Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and ...
A collaborative research team has improved visual localization and topographic mapping techniques that enable China's Zhurong rover to navigate and conduct scientific investigations on Mars.