US presidents have each redecorated the Oval Office in their own unique ways since it was first built in 1909.

US-led regime change campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are painfully lodged in the modern American memory.

Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the highest court has shown little concern about adhering to long-standing precedents. | Opinion ...

As our community, our state and our country stand at the starting gate to 2026, the 250th anniversary of the founding of this great ...

Overturning Humphrey’s Executor would gut independent agencies. The Supreme Court still has a principled way out.

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On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake dealt Haiti and its capital Port-au-Prince a catastrophic blow, killing at least ...

Next month, Christie’s is christening America’s 250th birthday with its largest Americana Week ever. The nine-sale, 700-lot extravaganza will feature treasures like a signed copy of the Emancipation ...

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped ...

On Jan. 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt, Howard Carter and his workers found ...

The image is so familiar that it often goes unnoticed: the powdered hair, the ruffled shirt, the stoic smile. George Washington’s rendering on the $1 bill may be the most widely distributed portrait ...

Biggie also went to private school, and the "one room shack" he referenced in his music was actually an apartment in Brooklyn ...