State efforts to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider same-sex marriage have not advanced, but they have reopened the issue.

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Local BBC Radio joins BBC Radio 5 Live through the night on a weekend.

Local BBC Radio joins BBC Radio 5 Live through the night on a weekday. Follow three girls through pregnancy in a UK town with the highest rate of teen births.