President Donald Trump has visited the Lincoln Memorial to see the reflecting pool he's painting in a color he calls “American flag blue.”.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln.
The State Department says it's preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America’s 250th birthday and featuring a picture of President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump is calling for unity after what he says he feels was a third assassination attempt.
King Charles III embarks on a state visit to the U.S. on Monday, aiming to strengthen ties between the two nations.
President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran’s foreign minister as officials in the South Asian nation push to revive ceasefire talks.
Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East as the Trump administration has insisted that progress has been made in talks with Iran and has threatened to escalate the war if a deal is not reached soon.
For years, Iran’s theocratic government warned it would blanket the Middle East with missile and drone fire if it felt its existence was threatened.
Robert De Niro was a featured guest Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall, where he recited Abraham Lincoln’s warning against mob violence.
President Donald Trump says he was not pleased with the way that negotiations with Iran were proceeding.
Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. military’s attacks on Iran.
Publisher Ann Godoff, who helped shape modern American book culture and launched many bestsellers, has died at age 76.
The Pentagon is building up the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades.
Many Iranians are worried as the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East and the next round of talks in Geneva get closer.
Iran has announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz for live fire military drills.
President Donald Trump says a change in power in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen” as the U.S. administration weighs whether to take military action against Tehran.
The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Iran marks the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution as leaders face pressure from the U.S. and anger at home.
Iranian security official Ali Larijani is in Oman, the country currently mediating talks between Tehran and Washington over Iran's nuclear program.
The U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer has introduced his vision for the Navy's future, focusing on using smaller and newer assets instead of consistently turning to huge aircraft carriers.
Iranian security forces have launched a campaign to arrest figures within the country's reformist movement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday about the U.S. talks with Iran.
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck will perform a joint concert at Carnegie Hall in the 2026-27 season.
The White House says talks between special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian officials are still planned after a Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
President Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.
U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region.
The Kennedy Center's head of artistic programming has stepped down, two weeks after being named to the position.
Democrats and White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security.
President Donald Trump is warning Iraqi officials that the U.S. would no longer support the country if its former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, returns to power.
Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has canceled the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln at the Kennedy Center.
In a story published Jan. 26, 2026, about Iranian-backed militia groups' threats amid tensions between Iran and the United States, The Associated Press erroneously reported about Yemen's Houthi rebels' actions during Israel's 12-day war in June on Iran.
Authorities in Iran have unveiled a new mural in a central Tehran square with a direct warning to the United States to not attempt a military strike on the country.
The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned that his forces are "more ready than ever" as U.S. warships move toward the Middle East.
An auction house in New York is marking the United States' 250th birthday by selling items that trace the nation’s history through some of its most iconic documents.
As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers watched with a mixture of glee, gloating and wariness.
Iran has reported its first government-issued death toll from the recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed.
Iran has warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the U.S. president called for an end to Khamenei’s near 40-year reign.
Hackers have disrupted Iranian state TV to air footage supporting the exiled crown prince.
Presidents often find solace in golfing, and Joint Base Andrews in Maryland is a favorite spot because it's close to the White House and has built-in security.
Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production.
When former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral, he will join a bipartisan but exclusive list of figures memorialized there, in a church that tells the story of America on hallowed ground.
An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an extraordinary relationship the two had despite the demands the new president had undertaken.
Jeffrey Goldberg has bold goals: “We want The Atlantic to be the greatest writer's collective on the planet,” the magazine's editor-in-chief said.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington explores the complexity of America's past.
President Donald Trump's name and image will never be forgotten should congressional Republicans have a say in the matter.
President Donald Trump has shared his unique takes on past presidents and their portraits while discussing his White House redecorating efforts.
Community leaders and performers gathered at the Jacksonville Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium Tuesday evening for an early Juneteenth celebration.
While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the following year, 1866.
Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans.
The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.
Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman, the Ritz Theater & Museum and the City of Jacksonville hosted the fifth annual Jacksonville Emancipation Celebration at Lift Ev’re Voice and Sing Park on Saturday.
Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.
The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.
Three Broadway shows — “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” — each earned a leading 10 Tony Award nominations Thursday.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes at the end of President Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting that the U.S. has brought home 47 wrongfully detained Americans so far in Trump’s second term.
As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department has issued an appeal for its employees to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias, including actions taken for opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice, that may have occurred during former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.
A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is beefing up the Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ordering two aircraft carriers to be there next month as the U.S. increases strikes on Yemen-based Houthi rebels.
When President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his words are bound to be far different from when he addressed lawmakers at the beginning of his first term.
When 11-year-old Ceiba Phillips returned to his Southern California neighborhood a month after the devastating Eaton fire, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
Not every outlet popular with conservative readers is cheerleading for President Donald Trump.
Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.
We’re taking a look back at 2024’s craziest, kookiest, and most confounding stories, including a melted statue of Abraham Lincoln, a guy body-slamming an Orca, and a woodpecker playing ding-dong-ditch.
As the world has vastly changed, so has protection for presidents since the days when the public could come to the White House to meet Abraham Lincoln.
The Library of Congress is unveiling an eclectic new exhibit drawing on the institution’s vast historical archives and designed to make the Library a more popular and accessible destination for visitors and tourists.
The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving in, dueling had to be regulated and settlers were increasingly encroaching on tribal lands.
A new series on Apple TV+, premiering Friday, tells the lesser-known aspects of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the pursuit of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.
The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, during the Civil War.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained an original 1858 photograph of the future president with an interesting backstory.
A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500.
The festival honoring Emancipation Celebration Day in Jacksonville has become an annual tradition for James Weldon Johnson Park.
