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Suicide bombings at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday killed over 100 people, including 13 U.S. service members and at least 90 Afghans. The U.S. has been working to evacuate American citizens and allies from Afghanistan as the Taliban takes power. President Joe Biden said this week that the U.S. was "on pace" to meet the Aug. 31 evacuation deadline; on Wednesday, Secretary of State

While it's unlikely anyone can say with certainty what were the origins of America’s Memorial Day, it is generally accepted that the custom of decorating graves in remembrance of the war dead began after the Civil War, among families of fallen Confederate soldiers. But the historian David W. Blight makes an argument that the first such observance was in fact the work of newly freed Black

The date for arguments is on the calendar. The questions that the justices will have to decide are clear. Even the amount of time lawyers will have to make their case is set in stone.

But there's still one mystery heading into next month's historic gay marriage case at the Supreme Court: Who will get to argue before the justices that same sex marriage should be legal across the nation

The White House’s desire for a payroll tax cut and spending curbs was instantly confronted with bipartisan opposition.

Top administration officials will head to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a full day of meetings after some of President Trump’s priorities in the next coronavirus spending package met with bipartisan resistance, prompting one GOP senator to call Trump’s pitch a “first