Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. president, led the nation through the Great Depression and most of World War II. His New Deal reforms aimed to stabilize the economy and create jobs. Despite ...

One of the most bitter political debates in U.S. history produced one of the United States’ greatest foreign policy accomplishments.

Nearly 100 years ago on March 12, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt broadcast the first of many “fireside chats,” straight from the White House.

During a roundtable at the White House on Friday, March 6, President Donald Trump returned to what has become a familiar refrain in the weeks since the Supreme Court struck […] The post When ...

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but presidents assert broad authority over use of force and the ...

On March 13, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This day in US history saw pivotal moments. Coca-Cola bottles first appeared. A Supreme Court justice was impeached. President Roosevelt delivered his first fireside chat. The Red River Campaign began ...

WASHINGTON — John Wrory Ficklin was 7 when he learned that his father, the son of a slave, was important. It was 1963, and ...

Public concern about rising costs is fueling hopes for a blue wave in the November midterm elections, as well as Democratic wins in Wisconsin that could deliver trifecta control of the Legislature, ...

Arsenio Hall made his entrance as host and glanced quickly to his left. What — or rather who — he saw on stage delighted him. The camera switched to a shot of a suited Bill Cl ...

President Donald Trump concluded a weekend in Palm Beach in which he publicly railed against media coverage of the Iran war ...