Former Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood has died. First elected to the Senate in 1968, Packwood was often considered a maverick by fellow Republicans — a fiscal conservative but social moderate, with Packwood ...

Jonathan Bush, the nephew of former President George H.W. Bush and cousin of former President George W. Bush is trying to ...

A hastily drafted commencement address announced a plan that would revitalize Western Europe after World War II and leave a ...

While history recorded his refusal to seek a third term as a legendary act of statesmanship, the opinions of the day were ...

On June 5, 1976, the Teton River Dam in Idaho collapsed as it was being filled for the first time, killing 11 people, ...

Republican Jim Desmond and Democrat Marni Von Wilpert are competing for the 48th Congressional seat, with Von Wilpert ...

The open 48th Congressional District, redrawn to favor Democrats, could be key to both parties’ hopes of controlling Congress ...

These are the 2026 primary election results for California's Congressional Districts 49, 50, 51 and 52, which encompass parts ...

Richard Milhous Nixon was born on January 9, 1913, in Whittier, California, the second of five sons. He graduated from Whittier College in 1934 and Duke University Law School in 1937. He returned to ...

In these notes, we address South America, where the complexity of societies, scandalous socioeconomic inequality, the ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Ken Paxton, Texas’s scandal-ridden ...