Mary turned to holding seances in the Red Room at the White House to communicate with their son. A thoughtful Abraham Lincoln After his assassination in 1865, Lincoln's ghost is said to have ...

W. Bush. As one might guess, the history of White House visits by baseball teams dates back much farther. On Aug. 30, 1865, President Andrew Johnson welcomed the Washington Nationals and Brooklyn ...

Lawmakers in the House are launching plan B to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. Speaker Mike Johnson ...

With impetuous alacrity they seize the White House, and hold possession of it, as in the late administration, until shaken off by the overpowering force of public indignation. Their pernicious ...

Between 1619 and 1865, Virginia passed more than 130 slave statutes to ... help the British drive American soldiers back to Washington, D.C., and then set the White House on fire. He said Blacks were, ...

The White House has maintained the 81-year-old is still ... It commemorates the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in ...

Impeachment in the United States is a constitutional mechanism allowing the President and other high-ranking officials to be ...

Juneteenth -- also known as Freedom Day, Liberation Day and Emancipation Day -- is celebrated on June 19 to mark the day in 1865 when African ... Lee attended the White House's first-ever ...

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) funding gamble didn’t pay off. A diverse group of House Republicans on Wednesday torpedoed Johnson’s proposal for a six-month government funding bill, dealing an ...

Former Welsh rugby hero Alun Wyn Jones surprised Swansea shoppers as they caught him stacking supermarket shelves.

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A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.