Can a country restore its naval power when it’s losing its shipbuilding brain trust out the door? Washington’s policy ...

George Washington, despite initial doubts about his abilities, successfully led the American army to victory against the British. Washington's strategic avoidance of direct confrontation with the ...

President George Washington offered a very different model of an American parade—one better suited for a moment that tested the nation’s founding principles.

Washington wants Moscow to leave Latin America, including Cuba and Venezuela, to the U.S. The Trump administration also seeks Russia’s assistance in negotiating a new nuclear agreement with Iran.

In July 1775, General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, were “all the Troops of the several Colonies ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There were funnel cakes, stands of festival bling and American flags aplenty. There were mighty machines of war, brought out to dazzle and impress. And there was the spray of ...

Proposed cuts to vital food, health, and education programs would threaten families’ budgets and slash supports for children. A child walks in front of American flags at the Washington Monument ...

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable.

How the U.S. Army was born 08:23. A relic of the American Revolution is delicately ushered into the National Museum of the United States Army, at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Boo Rose picks tobacco in a field on Aug. 29, 2013, in Warfield, Virginia. A tax rebate for tobacco manufacturers has attracted heavy lobbying spending as Republicans in Congress try to pass ...

WASHINGTON -- There were funnel cakes, stands of festival bling and American flags aplenty. There were mighty machines of war, brought out to dazzle and impress. And there was the spray of tear ...