And they used to celebrate their jobs, taking pride in declaring that they work for the United States. But the new people in charge of the U.S. government have declared war on its 2.3 million ...

The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of ...

Finding something to celebrate was key to Washington’s success ... who led the Union during the Civil War and put an end to slavery. Credit...Carlos Javier Ortiz for The New York Times Which ...

The March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his "I Have ... and a mule that formerly enslaved people were promised ...

On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the Syrian Civil War. Beginning in the Spring of 2011 after a violent ...

The standoff at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue was not much of a spectacle. On the first day of February, a handful of men working ...

by MATT BROWN, Associated Press TOPICS: WASHINGTON ... for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill the late reverend's dream of non-violent social revolution. Events honoring King and ...

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and advocating for his vision of a just society will occur as many in the U.S. observe the peaceful transfer of power in the capital.

Its power derives from Musk, the wealthiest person on the planet, who has been deputized to dismantle vast swaths of the federal bureaucracy—slashing budgets, gutting the civil service ...

So they became friends in Washington ... White House events," Newmark said. 'Like finding the Mona Lisa': Historian learns freed slave buried in Hamilton Cemetery is U.S. Civil War vet Abbott ...

Syria's new rulers have been blamed for assassinating several of Kafranbel's leading journalists and activists ...