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.
11/30/2016 - 19:53
We have reached the end of the year, a time of holiday celebrations. But some of the most important and poignant events in American history occurred in December.
11/28/2016 - 03:06
Cuba's Fidel Castro was many things to many people -- loved, hated, admired and despised. But for all that, he was undeniably consequential.
