WASHINGTON — Syracuse University alumni are new additions to the lengthening list of persons who can stop contributing to their alma maters. The university has succumbed — after, one suspects, not ...

A newly minted $1 coin will feature a woman from the Oneida tribe, Polly Cooper, known for aiding George Washington's army during the Revolutionary War.

New evidence helps resolve enduring mysteries about a 1758 incident that nearly cost the future president his life—and shaped his views on the battles yet to come As a 26-year-old colonel, Washington ...

The Sons of Liberty strategized at Fraunces Tavern, then George Washington celebrated victory and said farewell to his troops ...

From a live raccoon to a cheese wheel the weight of a car, American Presidents have received some unique gifts. These are ...

Historians are still learning new information about George Washington's life, but one shred of lore endures: He had a thing ...

The suspect in a shooting in the city of Washington on Thanksgiving morning turned himself into police Monday. Washington police Chief Steve Devenney said Brennan Mitchell Cole arrived at the police ...

It has been years of planning and executing, but the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate is complete just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday. “If ...

As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar — and possibly billion-dollar — fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one ...

It’s going to be lit. The Washington Monument will double as a giant birthday candle on New Year’s Eve to kick off the yearlong celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Freedom 250, a nonprofit ...

Washington police are asking for the public’s assistance to locate the suspect in a shooting that occurred the morning of Thanksgiving. Police filed charges this week against Brennan Mitchell Cole, 32 ...

I grew up a few miles from where George Washington and his Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian mercenary soldiers stationed in Trenton, N.J. Down on his ...