Two civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit over the cancellation of an interfaith vigil to mark a year since the outbreak ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments soon in the first major case involving transgender medical treatments for minors.

America's battlefield heroes and their sacrifices are marked in several travel spots you can visit to soak up history. Here ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

In summary, despite caveats about details of the ownership of the flag and the precise terminology used to describe it, the ...

Residents protesting Confederate statues on public land square off with neighbors refusing to surrender local landmarks.

The United Arab Emirates is expanding a covert campaign to back a winner in Sudan’s civil war. Waving the banner of the Red Crescent, it is also smuggling weapons and deploying drones.

Daniel J. Evans, former governor of Washington and U.S. Senator, died Friday at the age of 98.

The process for finding a speaker started in early 1968, months before the assassinations of either Martin Luther King Jr. or Robert F. Kennedy. The demure Inouye emerged as the party’s answer to ...

Israel killed a senior Hezbollah commander and other leaders in a strike on southern Beirut Friday. It comes after deadly pager and walkie-talkie attacks this week. Follow for live news updates.

Another vice president who ascended into office, O’Reilly ranks Lyndon B. Johnson as the third worst president of all time.

Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled civil war and are crossing into Chad for safety. At the border, we hear from people — ...