July 4, 2026 will offer fireworks, a grand parade, a two-day celebration on Pennsylvania Avenue and a month-long festival on ...

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Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of ...

Washington, DC, with its international symbols of American independence, rich history and local culture, will serve as center ...

A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism, and is introducing it to the public on the 80th ...

Ever since the second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day — July 4th, 1826, the 50th ...

The elections were not for the Knesset, which did not exist yet, but for the Constituent Assembly, a body tasked with ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as ...

Trump is a one-off in some ways. In many others, he is engaging in political traditions as old as the US itself.

but the King and Queen could be invited to Washington next year to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence. Foreign monarchs, presidents or prime ...

From connoisseurs to more private drinkers, plenty of US presidents have enjoyed a glass (or more) of wine over the years. These are some of their favorites.