WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, broke the U.S. record Wednesday for the ...

Three San Diego-based warships under the direction of the U.S. Central Command are helping enforce a naval blockade in the ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

If the verdict feels like the first ripple of a potential tsunami that may compare to the Big Tobacco litigation of the 1990s ...

You might have learned in history class that President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, while he and his wife were ...

They owned them. But in 1978, the Presidential Records Act established new rules for the official records of a president. Passed in the wake of Watergate, when President Richard Nixon tried to keep ...

Various comments from President Donald Trump on social media alarmed readers this week.

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The Tony-winning Broadway show “Oh, Mary!,” which portrays Mary Todd Lincoln as a chaotic, resentful, alcoholic former ...

America’s income tax is hardly the steepest in the world — that honor goes to Japan and Denmark, each with a top rate of 56 percent vs. a mere 37 ...

If you love dramatic landscapes, Red River Gorge will blow your mind. This place looks like it belongs out West, but it’s ...