George Washington was uneasy about the idea of commemorating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king. And yet the U.S. will once again ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

Rupert’s shocking decision was the climax of a succession battle that had pitted James and Lachlan, born just 15 months apart ...

It was the first time the body has taken that step in its half-century history. White remains eligible to run in a special ...

There were 64 passengers aboard the plane, and three Army soldiers in the helicopter, according to officials. Here's a look ...

The unwritten history of Finell White, who went from Harlem playgrounds to South Carolina countrysides and rewrote the record book ...

The flight data and voice recorders, known as black boxes, have been recovered after the midair collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter in the Washington, DC, area, the National ...

Dozens of people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D ...