On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., in a mass shooting.

Libraries and archives at universities across the nation catalog and steward the donated papers of members of Congress. But ...

Bill Moyers, a soft-spoken former White House aide turned journalist who became a standard bearer of quality in TV news, died ...

The aphorism, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," is attributed to Mark Twain. Although there is no convincing evidence Twain ever said or wrote those words, he did write, in the ...

It began on June 17, 1972, when five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

The suit challenges a May 28 order issued by the district’s chief judge concerning the handling of habeas corpus petitions.

On June 25, 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South. The conflict would last for ...

A federal judge is hearing arguments over whether the Trump administration should continue its deployment of troops to Los Angeles. An appellate court gave President Donald Trump a key ...

It was 1975, and Fidel Castro was reading ‘Jaws.’”  Wendy Benchley shared that complex shard of history with me. She’s the widow of Peter Benchley, who authored the best-selling novel that would ...