03/04/2017 - 12:26
When some 200 vastly outnumbered defenders of an old Spanish mission church in San Antonia were overrun and slaughtered on March 6, 1836, the battle quickly became the stuff of legend in a country that continues to remember the Alamo.
02/13/2017 - 20:56
Grace Murray Hopper was a Yale University graduate whose contributions helped pave the way for modern computers. She also served as an admiral in the Navy and continued working well beyond her retirement.
02/10/2017 - 09:55
Once in a while, questions arise about whether an American citizen has run afoul of the Logan Act -- a law that prohibits an unauthorized individual from meeting with foreign officials in an attempt to negotiate on behalf of the government.
01/10/2017 - 16:00
Secretary of State John Kerry
apologized this week for the State Department's past discrimination of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex employees and job applicants.
01/02/2017 - 20:00
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During his address to Congress this week, President Donald Trump spoke of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
12/30/2016 - 15:54
We will remember 2016 for the tumultuous U.S. presidential election. But it was also a year for rethinking and even making amends for history.
12/20/2016 - 17:40
A new study released by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam speculates that German police may have been conducting a separate investigation when they discovered the family in hiding.
12/12/2016 - 13:23
In Donald Trump’s way of thinking, his Electoral College victory was a “landslide.”
12/06/2016 - 10:53
On Dec. 7, 1941, at 7:55 a.m. in Hawaii, Japanese military planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.
