He never suggested that his dream of a discrimination-free society should make us blind to the persistence of racism.

But hobbled by inflation, illegal immigration and his own advancing age, Mr. Biden leaves office as an unpopular one-term ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors the legacy of the American civil rights icon, is this month. Here ...

I recently wrote about the purportedly "blind" trust created for President Jimmy Carter's peanut business. President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson. From that November afternoon when he made it clear that the torch of continuity ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Mike Johnson (R-La.) to continue as House speaker ahead of the new Congress voting on the position later this week. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, ...

Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. Over the years, the Nobel Prize winner was a frequent visitor to ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday that she may have to take “extraordinary measures” to keep the federal government functioning if lawmakers can’t raise or suspend the debt limit ...

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Diontae Johnson is moving onto his third team of the 2024 season, as the Texans filled their need for a wide receiver by claiming the former Steeler, Panther and Raven on Monday. Houston has ...

Blake Lively’s brother-in-law has come to the actress’ defense amid her legal drama with Justin Baldoni. Bart Johnson publicly supported Lively on social media just days after the “Gossip ...