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President Donald Trump kicked off his Middle East tour with a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, vowing a continued ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is pushing for an investigation into the impacts of a recent executive order targeting the operations of ...

The new and renovated galleries will be unveiled as part of the museum's $1 billion renovation. How to get free, timed-passes ...

Ava DuVernay accepted the Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal while voicing support for the African American museum.

At a ceremony at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, Hawaiians honor Chief Keaoua Kekuaokalani. He ...

In less than 20 years, in 2044, a majority of the U.S. population will be comprised of racial and ethnic minorities.

Alexis Ellison, a senior accounting and foreign languages double major from Woodland, will study Mandarin in Taiwan for eight ...

Maryland Humanities will launch the Maryland tour of Spark! Places of Innovation, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, at the ...

“Let us remind those who try to ‘restore’ a narrow, divisive past, that the future belongs to the whole of us,” said Great Americans Medal recipient Ava DuVernay to a Washington DC crowd this week ...

After art critic and photographer Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn.