Every president gets to decorate the Oval Office to their liking — but sometimes, they keep the decor of their predecessor.

The Houthis, an Iran-backed rebel group that controls north-western Yemen, have fired at US ships dozens of times. The ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice ... receive a monument on the National Mall in Washington. As we pause to remember King ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to nonfiction? Try these exercises for discussion, writing and speaking. By Peggy Dimock Lead poisoning can cause lower I.Q.s ...

Under blue skies and bright sunshine, Friday was the second-warmest day in two weeks. But snow still covered the ground and blanketed the ice-covered Potomac. Arlington County, Virginia ...

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Friday should be a rainy day with snow in the mountains above 3,000-4,000 feet. A warm front will be over western Washington on Friday with steady rain in the lowlands and occasionally heavy snow ...

Pope Francis has decided that this year, we will be discussing not any series of topics—clericalism women’s ordination to the diaconate, or ministry to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics—but synodality ...

Apple has released security updates to fix this year's first zero-day vulnerability, tagged as actively exploited in attacks targeting iPhone users. Security researchers hacked Tesla's Wall ...

In 1944, George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina at age 14. He was accused of bludgeoning two white girls to death and convicted by an all-white jury in a ...