Separation of powers is a foundational principle of this country. We are taught in school that the legislature enacts laws; the judiciary interprets laws; and the executive enforces laws. Executive ...

Here’s what they said: People flocked from the boomtown of Skagway, Alaska, to Canada’s Yukon in search of ... Skagway ...

By July last year, this was the territory controlled by each side ... Image: A soldier near the front in Khartoum, Sudan Maps tracking each side's areas of control have been collated using ...

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.

As President Donald Trump looks to expand the world’s real estate that’s under control, my students in a political science class and I wondered about U.S. presidents and their legacy in a discussion ...

Based on what Trump said yesterday, Putin would be stupid if he did not invade Alaska tomorrow, claiming, as he did with Ukraine, that he wants to recover a territory that belonged to the defunct ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom on Friday certified another ballot initiative application to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries in Alaska. Supporters can now start collecting signatures from ...

Tracking Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a brutal task as blood is spilled like water for mere metres of land on the frontline. But the broader picture is stark. Since 2014 ...

The Alaska LNG project, a long-delayed initiative to transport natural gas from the resource-rich US state of Alaska to global markets, has reemerged from the political wilderness following an ...

Here is a look at Ukraine’s borders and Russia’s advances into its territory: Ukraine’s borders were set when it gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed. It borders Belarus ...

The traditional Lower 48 states would become the contiguous 50 as the Canadian territory between the U.S. mainland and Alaska disappears, leaving Hawaii as the only noncontinental state.