The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

The chaos of Trump’s return to the Oval Office was interrupted by a horrific midair collision at Washington’s National Airport Wednesday night.

Some FBI executives contemplated rejecting requests for the names but decided they must comply with what bureau lawyers ...

Justice Department leadership has directed Washington, D.C.'s top prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney Edward Martin, to fire prosecutors who were assigned to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot ...

James Comer, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the House ... safety and the effectiveness of federal efforts to enforce the immigration laws of the United States.” The committee is also asking the ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

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Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

It’s hard to believe that the Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, demon carousel horse meme only happened last year. This is not the meditation on time that John Crowley was going for with his ...