The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly ...

Trump administration announces exit, set to take effect December 2026, repeating 2018 withdrawal over policy conflicts ...

President Trump is set to once again withdraw from The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the State Department announced Tuesday. In announcing the U.S. is ...

A huge prehistoric structure in Ohio has become the 25th US landmark to be awarded a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, which is made up of eight monumental ...

The United States government has withdrawn from UNESCO, the UN agency that promotes international education, scientific and cultural reforms, as well as world heritage preservation. The US State ...

Philly qualified for its history (UNESCO having already given Independence Hall, one of many sites key to American history and independence in the City of Brotherly Love, a Heritage nod in 1979).

“Inclusion on the Heritage List will make this important part of American history known around the world.” The US formally quit UNESCO in 2019, citing “anti-Israel bias” after the ...