In this video, Heather Cox Richardson, from Politics Chat , explains how current political events in the United States and globally fit into a larger picture (0:19). She addresses a whistleblower ...

The United Nations is accusing a paramilitary group in Sudan of committing widespread atrocities that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. The nearly three years of relentless ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal prison, warning that officials ...

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President Trump's Super Bowl weekend at Mar-a-Lago was full of social media posts on immigration, Olympic athletes and more.

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...