Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican president thanked the Democrat for his administration's help after Reagan resoundingly defeated Carter the previous November. Twenty years earlier,

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From Eleanor Roosevelt to Jill Biden, first ladies have often made statements through what they wore on Inauguration Day and to the inaugural balls.

Donna Brazile makes sense of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy as President Biden leaves office and President Trump takes office yet again.

The Israeli prime minister said the cease-fire would not begin until Hamas handed over names of hostages to be released Sunday. The group said the delay was technical. A protest in Tel Aviv on ...

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Israel’s government has approved a deal with Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza, which is to begin on Sunday morning.

Richard Nixon did it after losing to John F. Kennedy in 1960. Al Gore followed suit when the U.S. Supreme Court tipped the 2000 election to George W. Bush. But no other vice president has held the ...

Eleanor Roosevelt posing in the Sally Milgrim gown that she wore to her husband Franklin’s second inaugural festivities in 1937.

The former attorney general made the comment in 1964, roughly six months after the assassination of his brother.

Here's a look at the Arizona-led effort to release classified records and files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

“But is it like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.?” Alito interjected to audible laughs, recalling the ...