There are places in the world that seem ordinary on a map but feel mysterious in the mind. Area 51 is one of those places. It sits in the Nevada desert, where the land is dry and empty, yet the ...

No callers are identified. No conversations are recorded. No phone records are kept. Now speak clearly and when you are finished say: 'Go ahead'.

Most people have never heard of this place—and honestly, that’s part of the appeal. Sun Lakes–Dry Falls State Park in central Washington is one of the most fascinating (and alien-looking) landscapes ...

Diana Xue has always followed the politics of her husband, friends and neighbors in Orlando, Florida, and voted Republican. This Election Day, she’ll break that pattern. When Florida’s GOP-dominated ...

Alien land laws date to the early 20th century, when thousands of Japanese immigrants came to California to build a better life. They used their agricultural knowledge do to so, eventually producing ...

The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...

California's 1913 Alien Land Law barred Japanese immigrants, deemed "aliens ineligible for citizenship," from owning land. The law was driven by racial animosity and economic fears, despite Japanese ...