In the late 19th Century, James Garfield promised progress and reform – but four months after his inauguration he was shot.

While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund ...

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The Atlantic's November issue is a 148-page examination of the “unfinished revolution,” timed to coincide with Ken Burns' PBS documentary on the American ... writers to sign its mission statement.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, known until 1997 as Zaire, is a country located in Central Africa, with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest country in Africa by area.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A boat carrying about 300 migrants from Myanmar capsized last week in the Indian Ocean close to the maritime border between Thailand and Malaysia, with at least one body ...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats ...

HBO Max is set to host the premieres of a handful of exciting new TV shows and documentaries in November, as well as the ...

Forty acclaimed authors gathered for dinners at 40 locations across the city on a single night as part of Los Angeles Public ...

The rulings came a day before the Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the nation’s biggest food aid ...

Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and the tragedies of the nation’s founding. Plus: Donald Trump’s TikTok giveaway and Benjamin Nathans’s To the ...