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Shoppers are heading into the heavy-spending season with no new credit safeguards in place. Experts say it'll be at least another year before the U.S. system moves beyond technology from the 1970s.

Democrats and Republicans are much less likely to live among each other than they were a generation ago. And new social-science research suggests that more Americans are motivated to move because they want to live among partisans of their own stripe.

Most Star Spangled Banners you'll see on July 4 were made in the USA. Annin Flagmakers, the U.S.'s oldest and largest flag manufacturer, produces more than 3 million full-size American flags yearly.

Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag became the banner of the Pride movement. Baker died earlier this year, but he'll be remembered at Pride events this month.

Decades after Rosa Parks changed history, a new generation faces the challenge of remaking the civil rights movement for the next century. What can they learn from the past to build for the future?

State Sen. Burke Harr says Nebraska's state flag flapped upside-down for 10 days at the Capitol earlier this year — and no one even noticed. Now, he's on a crowdsourced quest to redesign it.

We asked children's media experts to recommend their favorite new books, TV shows and video games with characters and storylines representing the diversity of the U.S.

Police say the patties were being stored in a New Jersey shipping yard. Surveillance footage shows a 40-foot refrigerated container holding 3,000 burgers being towed away by a tractor trailer late Monday night.

Help Us Stranger marks the first Raconteurs album recorded at White's studio in Nashville.