US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu have reportedly discussed a possible American intervention ...

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Jews funded the American Revolution-and why that truth matters now. Reminder that religious freedom in America was not ...

Leaders across the region and around the world are grappling with the possibility that the Islamic Republic could be ...

The death toll in Iran mounted as protests continued to be brutally suppressed while the UK Government called for the Tehran ...

A rare silk edition of the Declaration of Independence from Middleton Place’s archives will be displayed when the ...

Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long ...

Before “Common Sense,” most Americans were not calling for independence, seeing it as risky and extreme. Even after ...

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