A few years ago, researchers sent robots to the wreck of the RMS Titanic, which is located 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Using underwater scanning technology, the deep-sea ...

Young succeeded founding director Lonnie G. Bunch III, who left the post to lead the Smithsonian Institution as secretary in 2019.

I am a Smithsonian Institution nerd. I have been for as long as I can remember. I can’t say I’m surprised that President Trump is attacking the Smithsonian. He is following the authoritarian ...

starting with the Smithsonian Institution.” During the campaign, Trump professed ignorance of Project 2025. “I’ve never read it, and I never will,” he said. This was hard to parse.

It directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds “improper” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reshape the Smithsonian Institution by eliminating programs that promote divisive narratives. The order specifically targets the National Museum ...

President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created ...

Judy Kurtz chats with The Hill’s Brett Samuels who gives his take on Trump’s new Executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institute. House GOP cancels budget vote Actors Who Refused Game Of ...

The institution was established by Congress with money from James Smithson, a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found "at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian ...