America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff

Landlords leased more space last year to service-oriented tenants than those selling products, with wellness and fitness leading the charge

U.S. Expands Fight Against Latin American Drug Gangs With Ecuador Operation

Ecuador has become a crucial transit country for cocaine moving to North America and Europe

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers

More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.”

The Everyday Americans Going All In on the Chinese Lifestyle

It’s not just Labubus. People are going crazy for congee, tai chi and boiled apples, leaving many Chinese Americans confused.

The Comeback That Made Alysa Liu America’s Unlikeliest Olympic Champion

A former child prodigy, she walked away from the sport for two years at the age of 16. She came back her way—and now she is the first U.S. figure skater to win women’s individual gold in a generation

The American Who Hunted Gold for 41 Years—and Won It in a Single Minute

Competing in her fifth Games, bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor became the oldest individual champion in Winter Olympics history

The Most Influential American Films of the Past 110 Years

Starting with ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in 1915, these are the movies that defined cinema—and the U.S

The American and Chinese Economies Are Hurtling Toward a Messy Divorce

The breakup is focused on sensitive matters now considered national-security issues, including semiconductors, food and energy

Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying

Silicon Valley fears this is the last chance to amass generational wealth before AI makes money worthless

The American City That Found Itself at War With the U.S. Government

An escalating showdown between federal and local authorities is playing out on the streets of Minneapolis, making even some Trump supporters uneasy

The West Stepped Back From the Brink. But Europe’s Distrust of America Lingers.

Despite Trump’s U-turn on military force and tariffs to seize Greenland, America’s allies fear worse turbulence ahead

America’s Tiny Airports and the People Who Love Them

Small-airport devotees brag about cheap parking, minimal TSA waits and friendly employees

America’s World Cup Kicks Off With ‘104 Super Bowls’—and One Peace Prize for Trump

The draw for the 48-team tournament to be held across North America next summer produced as a lavish, two-hour spectacle with no shortage of star power