Nations worldwide maintain territories for strategic and military purposes, often remnants of colonial empires.

Trump shared an AI-generated image depicting Greenland and Canada as US territories before the Davos summit, as a timeline ...

On Dec. 8, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on the United Kingdom and the Republic of Mauritius to suspend ratification of their agreement regarding Britain’s ...

The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa are organized unincorporated territories of the United States. They’re famous for all kinds of things, from sandy ...

A minor, 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 6:16 a.m. Pacific time about 5 miles east of ...

A boat captain in the far northwest Pacific has been sentenced in an upscale human smuggling scheme that netted him tens of thousands to shuttle undocumented Chinese nationals to the United States ...

Pronghorn move in one of the migration routes that bisects the Northern Sagebrush Steppe in Montana and Canada. (Paul Jones/Alberta Conservation Association Photo) In 2004, a female pronghorn made the ...

A think tank has released a new platform focusing on how Micronesia, a little-mentioned but strategically placed archipelago in the western Pacific, is becoming a central arena in the U.S.-China great ...

The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region ...

A solar eruption may cause the northern lights to be visible across the northern U.S. on Wednesday night. The aurora borealis could be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California. Nearly 20 ...