While obtaining territory from another country would be an unusual move for a modern U.S. president, much of America’s states and territories today came through purchase or expansion.

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The US dollar is used as official currency ... and the Marshall Islands, all three were territories administered by the United States from 1947 to 1986. They each decided to continue using the ...

Puerto Rico is home to the largest population among the five territories. American Samoa ... U.S. nationals can enter and live in the United States, but their children do not receive birthright ...

However two American states, and five territories, are exempt either in part or in full. The biannual clock switch for most Americans has become increasingly debated in recent years with a number ...

Bottom line, if Canada becomes a state, then it is a state with all the rights and needs every other state has, from ...

More than 4 million Americans live in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American ... out of its current state of gridlock. How would it work? In the House, the territories and D.C. already ...

Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant ...