Franklin Roosevelt helped launch the modern system of presidential libraries in the late 1930s.

A new generation of civil rights leaders is rallying against efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.

A deep and wide-ranging biography of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has won a $50,000 prize.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has drawn negative attention for his comment that the press has emphasized casualties in the Iran war because it wants to make President Donald Trump look bad.

Two hotly contested U.S. Senate primaries in Texas will help officially kick off the 2026 midterm election cycle Tuesday.

Lawmakers in both parties are calling for investigations following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by a U.S. Border Patrol officer.

A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start.

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.

This summer, President Donald Trump has begun to chisel back Medicaid and food stamps.

The Trump administration says it will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program.

The IRS says pastors endorsing political candidates during services should not risk losing their tax-exempt status.

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, has died at 91.

In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has exerted his power on a scale with no easy historical comparison.

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led filmmakers for the past half century to reckon with its complicated legacy.

The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate the Head Start program, a move that would cut early education for some of the nation’s neediest children as part of drastic proposed cuts to federal health funding.

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.

William E.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.

Joe Biden staked his presidency on the idea that he was the best person to keep Donald Trump out of power.

Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president.

Robert Caro spends most of his days writing the fifth and final volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, more than a decade in the making and still without a scheduled release date.

As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others who have tried the same.

No longer on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden delivered a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library designed to help cement his legacy.

President Joe Biden has made his first address since his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

Democratic Party leaders are publicly standing by President Joe Biden after a disjointed debate performance.

Bernie Sanders will be Joe Biden's most powerful emissary to progressives and to younger voters this election year.

Teachers at Head Start child care centers are paid far less than public school teachers, even though they have similar credentials.

There’s something different this year about this year's first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, at least on the Democratic side.

Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson.

Experts in constitutional law and the military say the Insurrection Act gives presidents tremendous power with few restraints.

An Associated Press reporter whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades has died.

One of the greatest literary editors in modern times, Robert Gottlieb, has died.

Andrew Young, one of the last surviving members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle, recalls the journey to the signing of the Voting Rights Act as an arduous one, often marked by violence and bloodshed.

No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception.

Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaign.

In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W.

In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W.

No current or former Texas politician has announced a campaign for the 2024 presidential race.

It’s early yet, but next year’s presidential race may feature something the political world hasn't seen in the last 50 years: no elected officials from Texas.

Jimmy Carter’s path to the presidency is an oft-told story, especially by aspiring presidents trying to be the next politician to defy Washington expectations.

The 117th Congress opened with the unfathomable Jan. 6, 2021, mob siege of the Capitol.

The good news on Robert Caro’s very long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words.

They may be publishing's most famous author-editor pairing.

The National Christmas Tree is now blazing with bright color.

President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden married her fiance, Peter Neal, on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday.

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't re-up as a House leader next year, even her adversaries acknowledged that hers was a remarkable era.

“Here Comes the Bride” will play at the White House very soon.

Hispanic Heritage Month is a great time to learn more: For some, more about your own heritage, or for others, perhaps another culture.

A local elected official got court-appointed attorneys during his arraignment on a murder charge in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his managerial conduct.

Hanging out with Richard Nixon's daughter.

There have been moving and respectful tributes to Queen Elizabeth II as sports resumed in Britain following a nationwide shutdown Friday as a mark of respect for the monarch.

She went horseback riding with Ronald Reagan.

The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died.

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records.

It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W.

The 4th Congressional District in Washington state is a land of snow-capped volcanic peaks and lush irrigated apple orchards.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

It was launched as the new president’s ambitious plan for rebuilding America.

A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes that are terrorizing people across America.

California released an exhaustive report detailing how government laws and policies perpetuated discrimination against African Americans.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan backing to Powell’s high-stakes efforts to curb the highest inflation in four decades.

Historian Mark K.

When you live in a home passed down from previous generations, deep-time design opportunities lurk around every corner.

Antawn Jamison knows what it's like to play basketball with Michael Jordan in a pickup game while in college — and what it's like to go up against MJ in the NBA, too.

Michael Jordan gave way to LeBron James in the NBA of the 2000s, just as traditional forms of communication began to yield to the birth and growth of new media.

History was made the instant Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court.

The discovery of more than a dozen boxes of records at Mar-a-Lago has alarmed historians and archivists, who rely on government documents to eventually provide a more complete picture of every presidential administration.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a musical reunion of Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, the first take of a multi-part documentary on Kanye West and the return of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” for its pandemic-delayed fourth season.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the criticism he received over a comment made about African American voters is outrageous and offensive.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats "made progress” toward changing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance voting legislation, despite the dramatic collapse of the package that his party says is central to protecting democracy.

The last of a new class of warships has departed a Maine shipyard.

A fire destroyed the northern Virginia home of former U.S. Sen. Chuck Robb and his wife, Lynda, who is the daughter of former President Lyndon Johnson Wednesday.

The White House Historical Association is honoring President Lyndon Johnson with its 2021 annual Christmas tree ornament.

LBJ tried jawboning.

The grind of legislating is treacherous for some, a sport for others, and rarely successful in the slow-moving Congress.

Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in trying to navigate President Joe Biden’s big domestic vision into law.

When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring.

It’s big, messy and complicated as the Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy package into law.

Robert Caro has been writing history for much of his adult life.

First lady Jill Biden has campaigned for Democrats in Virginia's and New Jersey’s governors' races.

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul's airport, ending America's longest war.

At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America's longest war.

President Joe Biden’s belief that bipartisanship is still possible in a deeply divided Washington was validated when Senate Democrats and Republicans came together to pass his $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

The nearly 20-year American combat mission in Afghanistan was the United States’ longest war.

The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug on research on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.

We set our calendars around national holidays — from December 25 for Christmas to July 4 for Independence Day, and, starting this year, June 19 for Juneteenth.

Congressional leaders and a media advocacy organization are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigate how policy decisions have disparately harmed Black Americans and other communities of color, according to a letter sent Tuesday to the acting FCC chair.

After nearly two years of renovations, the Harry S.

Case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time.

For a president who had campaigned on his ability to work across the aisle, Joe Biden's announcement of a bipartisan deal on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package was a victory.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle on Sunday, and afterward the president told reporters traveling with him that the 95-year-old monarch was “very gracious” and reminded him of his mother.

Joe Biden is now the 13th American president to meet Queen Elizabeth II.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest daughter says she’s afraid American society is unraveling.