Curious what was in President Lincoln’s pockets on the day of his assassination? The contents — along with some 120 historical artifacts — are now on public display at the Library of Congress for the first time.  The inaugural exhibit, “Collecting Memories,” in the brand-new David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery is set to open on June...

If Biden really wanted to end the crisis, he could make a big step toward doing it by restoring the previous administration’s border measures and terminating his own measures that encourage illegal immigration.  

A growing number of people who had COVID-19 have developed rare kinds of cancer and often more than one kind.

Moderates committed to compelling goals, like peace in the Middle East, cannot succeed as long as they are allied with radicals committed to war. This political lesson holds as much in the tunnels of Gaza as it does on the campuses of American universities.

The White House on Monday seized on reporting that Republican lawmakers are preparing to extend tax cuts from the first Trump administration and lower rates for corporations if the GOP wins control of the White House and Congress in November. In a memo from deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, the White House cited a Washington...

Too often, the teaching of American history is seen as a luxury.

A majority of American Jews support President Biden’s reelection campaign and say they trust him over former President Trump to combat the “serious” problem of rising antisemitism, according to a survey published Monday. The American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) 2024 survey of American Jewish Opinion — conducted March 12 to April 6 — shows Jews largely...

A new poll of Puerto Rican voters found striking similarities in most political positions among respondents who live in the U.S. territory and the millions of Puerto Ricans on the mainland. The survey, conducted by progressive pollster Izq Strategies for La Brega y Fuerza, a project to increase the diaspora’s civic engagement, found that both...

A circuit court judge who represented a local affiliate of Planned Parenthood announced on Monday that she’s launching a bid for a vacant seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which is up for grabs next year. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford is vying for outgoing liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s seat on the...

Federal agencies are ramping up efforts to crack down on the sale and distribution of illicit electronic cigarettes, intent on stemming the flood of products on the market that continuously skirt government regulation. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday a new task force of agencies aimed at bringing “all available criminal and civil tools...