Women's March is urging people to join or host block parties, marches and other events over the holiday weekend.

Extreme heat is impacting states across the country. See maps of high temperature forecasts and heat index levels.

There've been similar maps built from phone call data. The idea here is to show America not as 50 states, but as regions where people do stuff together. In other words, a "Whom Do You Hang With?" map.

Incorporating dozens of metrics into its analysis, WalletHub created a ranking of the strongest economies in the U.S.

The map, printed in 1507, measured about 1.4m by 2.4m, a size that matched its grand ambition to portray the world in its entirety. And indeed, it did depict more of the world than ever before.

This may seem unbelievable, but in the course of creating this map, I filled my house with 1,001 books. Some are from the 19th century, with cloth bindings; some were published last month.

Over the last five years, I’ve read or reread 1,001 books of fiction in my project to create a literary map of this country. The idea for this “library of America” was born in 2016, when the ...