CLEVELAND, Ohio – Today - Saturday, June 14 - is Flag Day, which harkens to a famous moment on a baseball field involving the U.S. flag. Flag Day was proclaimed 100 years ago by President Woodrow ...

Historian Rutger Bregman argues in a new book that people should aspire to “moral ambition” — a mix of idealism and ruthless pragmatism — to make the world a better place.

A street in Springfield has been renamed in honor of the local Ukrainian community. Last month, the city agreed to rename a ...

SEATTLE — Child safety advocates and state lawmakers gathered near the front steps of Seattle City Hall on Friday to demand immediate reforms to Amber Alert protocols and family court practices. This ...

The largest is expected to take place in Portland, where at least five separate demonstrations are planned in and outside of ...

Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are co-sponsoring a bill that would ban discrimination against transgender military members.

Who the hell wants to work in a state like this?” Calm in the morning. Rowdy at night. That was the routine in downtown Los ...

The protesters gathered in downtown L.A. are a microcosm of the Democratic coalition that has dominated the city for decades.

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Melinda Henneberger and David Mastio discuss bad governing, authoritarianism and the immigrants caught in the middle.

What time are ‘No Kings’ protests happening tomorrow in NYC, Philadelphia, Seattle, Houston, San Diego, Phoenix, Little Rock, ...

Wesley Ehret is Belgrade's first D-I football recruit in a decade and could become the Grizzlies' first-ever letterwinner ...