When a week of jubilation turned tragic, generations of figure skaters discovered something new about the nature of their sport.

Nov. 12, 1896 The New Era Band will give a grand ball at Concordia Hall on Thanksgiving evening, music by the Ideal Orchestra. Tickets are 50 cents a couple. Plant to attend. Wm. H.

Two Republican congressmen reintroduced legislation this week to revoke D.C. home rule. Utah Senator Mike Lee and ...

Jeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In ...

A Nigerian man has been extradited to the US to face charges in the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide ...

Kentucky lawmakers are positioned to have substantial influence in major policy areas, including immigration and energy.

Bao Li, born in China, is the third generation of his panda family to live in the nation’s capital. His mother, Bao Bao, was born at the zoo in 2013. His grandparents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian ...

Explosions rocked the ground in the main city in DR Congo's east on Friday as intensifying clashes between the country's army and M23 fighters gripped the region. In the centre of the city of Goma ...

But by the next morning, when the National Cathedral held a “Service of Prayer for the Nation,” as it has every four years ...

“Elections come and go; some elections are important, some are not, but this one really mattered,” Musk told the crowd at DC’s Capital ... wing commentator Evan Kilgore called the moment ...