Laws are meant to protect people, but sometimes they create unintended consequences—especially when it comes to teenage relationships. Imagine this: a high school senior turns 18, and their ...

Ok, so at the Education Department and beyond, much has been made of the way President Trump is seeking to remake the federal government. He has also been hard at work redesigning the aesthetic of ...

Ok, so at the Education Department and beyond, much has been made of the way President Trump is seeking to remake the federal government. He has also been hard at work redesigning the aesthetic of the ...

JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like cartoon characters after a restoration job went wrong. The religious shrine in Poland has been mocked after the botched restoration left ...

A French politician is in the limelight for his recent and rather controversial statement. He has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French people as a gift in 1884.

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"No one, of course, will come and steal the Statue of Liberty. The statue is yours. But what it embodies belongs to everyone. And if the free world no longer interests your government, then we ...

New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...

Raphaël Glucksmann, a center-left French politician, slammed the Trump administration as “shameful” after it pushed back against his call for the Statue of Liberty to be returned to France.