President-elect Donald Trump has cited national security concerns in suggesting the U.S. take over Greenland, but it’s ...

The islands are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. They’re used primarily for wildlife conservation, particularly for ...

Donald Trump is doubling down on his desire to purchase Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, despite the country not being for sale.Since December, the president-elect has floated the idea ...

The US has five major territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Of these five, only two of them are considered commonwealths ...

President Trump has recently expressed a desire to expand American territory to include Greenland, the Panama Canal, and even ...

The prime minister of the Greenland says the people of his mineral-rich Arctic territory don’t want to be Americans but that he’s open to greater cooperation with the United States ...

Within a week, Japan's Northern Area Fleet pushed forward and seized the islands of Adak and Kiska, marking the first time that American territory had been occupied since the War of 1812.

But in a territory, the majority meant very little. The island's haoles locked up appointed ... asked the community to put its faith in the American system of justice. "Guilt or innocence ...