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Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
A Washington man charged with aiding the bomber of a fertility clinic in California has died after he was found unresponsive in federal custody.
The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim spike in political violence.
The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.
The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans.
The director of national intelligence says artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America's spy services.
President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into pardons and other executive actions issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden — launching an unprecedented effort to show that the Democrat hid his cognitive decline and was otherwise too mentally impaired to do the job.
Federal authorities say they have arrested a Washington man who provided chemicals to make explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May.
President Donald Trump has built a coalition by promising to demolish a so-called deep state that he claims is behind dark government conspiracies.
After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.
The announcement that Joe Biden has prostate cancer is the latest example of how the final chapters of his political career have been shaped by the disease.
A Gustav Mahler festival featuring all his symphonies and other major works is taking place at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam through May 18.
In a way, the requiem of a now dismantled agency that promoted U.S. security through development and humanitarian work abroad can be told through its people.
The nation’s air traffic controllers union says the flight cancellations plaguing Newark Liberty International Airport in new Jersey and spilling over to U.S. airports can be traced to a week ago when controllers temporarily lost contact with planes.
The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.
Former Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly defended the Constitution after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
It's the decades-long home to Big Bird, Ken Burns documentaries and “All Things Considered.”.
The White House is unveiling President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget, a sweeping framework proposing steep reductions in non-defense domestic spending while increasing expenditures on national security.
Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has exerted his power on a scale with no easy historical comparison.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking at a major Democratic fundraiser in New Hampshire as he continues to build his national profile.
President Donald Trump is putting his “touches” on the White House with new flagpoles, new artwork and a complete redecoration of the Oval Office.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she has formed a task force to consider big changes to America's spy agencies.
Former Vice President Mike Pence will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his refusal to go along with President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election.
Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has called on Congress to reinvestigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy following last month's release of thousands of pages of government documents surrounding the killing.
On a night when half a dozen people made jokes about this being the last-ever Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien made sure the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ended on a high note.
The British government has ordered an investigation into the country's “energy resilience” after an electrical substation fire shut Heathrow Airport for almost a day.
History buffs have uncovered revelations about U.S. espionage in the 1960s in thousands of pages of newly released government records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
A Trump Cabinet secretary violated the law when he told TV viewers this week to buy Tesla stock, but it's not clear that anything will be done about it.
Heathrow Airport is stirring back to life, with flights slowly resuming about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub and left 200,00 passengers stranded.
Newly released material from documents associated with President John F. Kennedy's assassination show that a key adviser wanted to break up the CIA after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.
The John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week disclosed sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers.
Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.
Unredacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office.
The Trump administration has transferred more than 200 immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order to bar the deportations temporarily.
The investigation into a January midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.
Russian news agencies say that Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for high-level talks.
Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days later with thousands of people there to cheer on both moments.
The megahit Broadway musical “Hamilton” is pulling out of plans to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.
When the Trump administration barred Associated Press reporters from presidential events, it did so after an or-else demand that the news agency change its style from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” in line with the president's executive order.
The FBI says it's discovered 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to release thousands of classified files.
USAID’s website has dropped offline without explanation in the Trump administration's two-week-old funding freeze of U.S. foreign aid and development funding.
Millions of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas have already been made public, but President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of still-classified files.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at his second inauguration.
The decision to move Monday's swearing-in means thousands of people with plans to visit Washington won’t be able to see President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration in person.
More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes have released an open letter calling for a dramatic increase in research and a commitment to new food distribution efforts.
For the first time, the District of Columbia is hosting three so-called National Special Security Events in a two-week span: Monday’s congressional certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral win, this week’s state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter and then Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Vice President Kamala Harris says Jan. 6, 2025, was a “good day” for democracy as she oversaw the peaceful certification of Donald Trump's victory.
Celebrities, cultural icons and a few surprise guests have paid tribute to honorees at the annual Kennedy Center Honors celebration in Washington.
The nation is set to mark 61 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as his motorcade passed through downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
The rally Republican Donald Trump is planning for Madison Square Garden on Sunday follows a long line of political events at the storied New York City arena.
Newly emerged film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway after he was fatally wounded has sold at auction for $137,500.
Film footage of President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway after he was fatally wounded has emerged.
Democrats say they will lay out the 2024 election as “a choice between two very different visions of America” on the Democratic National Convention’s second night.
The gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have done a Google search one week before the shooting of “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”.
Before Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates.
Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company.
President Joe Biden has accepted endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family.
Some of the last surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are among those sharing their stories as the nation marks the 60th anniversary.
Police say they have arrested a man who trespassed twice in one day at the California home of independent presidential candidate Robert F.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday's 60th anniversary of the March on Washington by meeting with organizers and relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The White House says all of King’s children have been invited.
Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public.
First lady Jill Biden has paid tribute to predecessor Jacqueline Kennedy for her pivotal role in preventing the teardown of historic buildings on iconic Lafayette Square near the White House decades ago.
The U.S. deputy secretary of state says the prime minister of the Solomon Islands “missed an important opportunity” by failing to attend a memorial service to mark the anniversary of a key World War II battle, amid concerns the South Pacific island nation is building closer ties with China.
The U.S. is sending a high-profile diplomatic delegation to visit the Solomon Islands next week led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and including Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy.
New U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy said Friday the United States needs to engage more with the Pacific region at a time when China is asserting its presence.
