The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory...belonging to the United States.... After the Constitution was ratified in 1788 ...

Denmark, the vice president argued, hasn't done a good enough job of securing Greenland from encroachment by Russia and China.

Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai speaks as Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok, centre, and Northwest Territories Premier R.J. Simpson, left, look on at a meeting in Ottawa in January. On Tuesday, all 3 ...

Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is an isolated mining town built on gold and now sustained by diamonds—an outpost of civilization surrounded by a vast, austere landscape ...

The 3.5 million people born in U.S. territories are not granted the same rights as citizens in the states, limiting their ability to fully participate in the country’s democracy. Puerto Rico is ...

The sale of Alaska to the United States triggered a good deal of editorializing on the part of newspaper writers in America and elsewhere. Following are extracts from five publications that show a ...