Trump is pushing to end cash bail, seal the border for good and pass a healthcare plan if Republicans are given two more ...

A new book examines the outsized influence of one man on the pivotal 1984 election which ushered in a new New Zealand.

Midterm campaign season has officially begun, and while President Donald Trump will not be on the ballot—although he wants ...

The Romans believed that cats could see ghosts. In Aztec and Mayan folklore, cats were esteemed as guides to the underworld.

Robin Morgan, a former child star who became a prominent poet and activist, has died at 85. She is widely credited with ...

Forty-two years after protesting Reagan in Dallas, Mavis Belisle is returning to the streets with younger activist Jo Hargis ...

In ‘This Week in History,’ with a nuclear arms summit on the horizon, Reagan and Gorbachev struggled to resolve a crisis of ...

German author B. Traven, whose identity remains unknown. In the book, two destitute American men in Mexico of the 1920s join an older American prospector in a search for gold. John Huston adapted the ...

Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.

"Nimrods" introduces the faux teen band Analog Dogs. How do they rank against Spinal Tap, Stillwater and the best fictional movie bands ever?

Even after a string of recent victories in congressional primaries by members of the Democratic Socialists of America, national Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are ...

Hours before Donald Trump addressed the nation on its 250th anniversary, the National Mall was in chaos. A storm was on the way, and law enforcement had ordered the MAGA faithful to evacuate — a ...