NEW YORK CITY -- A Staten Island Ferry was evacuated after a fire in the engine room caused the boat to stall in the New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty. The incident happened Thursday after 5 ...

The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from the people of France to commemorate 100 years of Franco-American friendship. The statue also commemorates the centennial of America’s ...

Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the U.S. is no longer worthy of the monument, which was ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma Lazarus reimagined Lady Liberty as a "mother of exiles," welcoming immigrants ...

The Statue of Liberty was originally designed as a marker of liberation of African Americans and the end of the Civil War. That part of its history was overshadowed by a late design change to instead ...

A French politician facetiously asked the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty, suggesting the country no longer lives up to the values the green-hued gift represents. Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of ...

A call that could easily have gone unnoticed for the Statue of Liberty to be repatriated to France has generated a media swarm over the sculpture and sparked a war of words between a European ...

NEW YORK − The Statue of Liberty may go dark during the federal government shutdown, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned on Oct. 1. With Lady Liberty as a backdrop, the New York Democrat stood alongside ...