Lincoln, worried that conciliatory overtures toward the South would appear weak, employed a preinaugural strategy of ...

When President Donald Trump returned from a Bastille Day visit to Paris during his first term, he asked his military brass to ...

On this date in history: In 1892, the Sierra Club was founded by naturalist John Muir. In 1934, the Dionne sisters, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile, Marie and Annette, first documented set of quintuplets ...

When Harrison Ruffin Tyler's grandfather was born 235 years ago in 1790, George Washington had just become the nation's first ...

He was the last of three generations spanning nearly the entire history of the United States: When his grandfather was born, ...

The Trump administration said it’s investigating former FBI director James B. Comey’s Instagram post of seashells spelling “86 47” as a threat to the president. (Video: The Washington Post ...

A striking chestnut with his flaxen mane and tail, Stage Door Johnny's reign on the New York racing stage was brief but ...

My name is Sharon Styles. I am the great-granddaughter of Harvey Shaw and the great-great-granddaughter of Bess Shaw, two of ...

In every battle fought since the United States’ founding, U.S. Army troops have relied on their issue longarms, from muskets ...

Student visas: The State Department has temporarily stopped interviewing foreign citizens who are applying from abroad for ...

For Trump, a president who often boasts about "holding the cards" in high-stakes negotiations—most famously during a heated ...

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -A U.S.-backed foundation tasked with supplying aid to Gaza said it began operations on Monday, ...