Pictures of presidents' wives tell us a lot about their personalities, their values – and the US. Cath Pound explores the many depictions of an often controversial ...
Editor's note: This commentary is by Elayne Clift, who writes from Saxtons River. She has taught Women's and Gender Studies at various colleges in the U.S. ...
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder," a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 ...
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who earned an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age ...
The phenomenal response to Amanda Gorman's performance at the inauguration and her wide acclaim came with a bleak undercurrent, says historian Manisha ...
By Hillel Italie and Mark Kennedy | Associated Press. NEW YORK — Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as ...
'President Biden's foreign policy will be more traditional, less transactional, and more strategic in nature.' After the “unprecedented dark page” of American ...
With a decimated federal government, a pandemic, and a resulting economic disaster awaiting him on day one of his potential presidency, Joe Biden is looking ...
John Brennan has suggested there may be life beyond the reaches of Earth. 'I think it's a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there's no other ...
On Jan. 5 voters in Georgia will vote in two runoff elections for the U.S. Senate. Uppermost in the voters' minds will be how well the two sets of candidates will ...
Good Friday morning! Five U.S. troops, plus one French and one Czech *service* member — who were part of an international peacekeeping force along the ...
Barack Obama got rave reviews from supporters for the rousing speech he gave Wednesday night at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. But of course ...
Are we truly alone in the universe? You and I might not know the answer to that question, but a handful of people at the highest echelons of government have ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenCapitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lies in honor in Rotunda Manchin warns against Democratic-only coronavirus ...
Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster wants you to know he has not written the book you probably wanted to read — and he says it right up front.
At a campaign rally in Iowa, President Donald Trump cited an unsubstantiated news report to revive a widely debunked false narrative about Joe Biden's work in ...
For first lady Hillary Clinton, it was wearing hairbands. Michelle Obama bared her arms, which (white) first ladies had done before her. First-lady-to-be Jill Biden, ...
Barack Obama is literally more popular than Jesus among Democrats. Unfortunately, neither the former president nor any of the party's 23 candidates currently ...
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Joe Biden's nominee for US ambassador to the UN, on Tuesday promised a new approach to one of the top jobs in American foreign ...
In November 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to give an election victory speech under an actual glass ceiling at the Javits Center in New ...
Biden's closest advisers say the top priority will be announcing a White House chief of staff, then assembling the pieces needed to tackle the coronavirus.
After a typical election — because there are thousands of critical decisions to be made in just 11 weeks before the inauguration — the presidential transition ...
Bobby wasn't on the ballot. Neither was Jack. Or Ted. Joseph Patrick Kennedy III lost his presumptuous race for the U.S. Senate all by himself. A promising but ...
Sabine Musil-Buehler “disappeared” the night Barack Obama defeated John McCain and won the presidency. In the ensuing days, those who knew the island ...
Mr. Biden's relationship-centered approach to politics stands apart from the technocratic Obama presidency, and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. It might be ...
Democrats are bracing for the possibility that if President Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, he and his aides will bungle a smooth handover of power ...
Ellen's show has been in reruns for over a week now due to coronavirus, but that hasn't stopped America's most famous lesbian from interviewing celebrities on ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. But on Monday, it was also relitigating 2016. The opening session of ...
The Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress turned filmmaker has extended her partnership with luxury automaker Cadillac for its latest campaign, shot by Dee ...
What Kenya Barris's Netflix comedy “BlackAF” demonstrates above all, in spite of itself, is that there may be nothing internally consistent about blackness in our ...
Either for fear of jinxing it or of appearing presumptuous, American presidential candidates avoid publicly naming their shadow cabinets ahead of elections.
There's no doubt that when historians assess the Obama presidency, they will pay a great deal of attention to the deep political divisions within the country, and ...
Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott is announcing a transition team that he says will help him prepare to take on, and reshape, local government.
U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he won't move forward on the nomination of Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Lisabeth Tabor Hughes to the ...
Vin Diesel put haters on notice releasing a surprise single back in September, “Feel Like I Do.” You were probably thinking the 'Fast and Furious' star jumped ...
EXETER, N.H. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is accustomed to fielding questions from voters about picking a running mate. But on Monday, he ...
The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU might be more than a year away, but Barack Obama has already nailed his colours to the mast. Speaking to ...
In recent years, the Times has had an open-door policy for those who oppose not just the policies of the Israeli government but also the whole idea of a Jewish ...
Charlamagne called Biden's apology 'lip *service*' during interview Sunday; Last week the former VP told the radio host that black people unsure whether to back ...
On Jan. 5 voters in Georgia will vote in two runoff elections for the U.S. Senate. Uppermost in the voters' minds will be how well the two sets of candidates will ...
WASHINGTON — Later this month, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will escape for a family retreat to mourn his late son, Beau, but also to mull, as his dying ...
BERLIN — Senator Barack Obama stood before a sea of cheering admirers on Thursday and sought to inspire *fresh* cooperation among American allies to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Impatient to return to the campaign trail, President Donald Trump dubiously claimed he's fully recovered and immune from COVID-19, ...
As a woman with a credit score and bodily autonomy, not to mention a recent call to jury duty, I know many of my human rights were secured by Supreme Court ...
WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Joe Biden said Friday during a virtual fundraiser that he told his Democratic competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., he ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had noticed multiple hostile statements directed at Russia on the topic of Kremlin critic Alexei ...
It would be great if racist attitudes could be eliminated by the stroke of a pen, but we must deal with human nature. People with established beliefs and practices ...
National Review editor Rich Lowry had a brutal response to Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin after she suggested that his dismissal of potential ...
A meeting with Obama administration officials and those from the presidential campaigns is the official start of the handover process, likened to a giant corporate ...
Over the past few weeks, I taught my “Practice of Education Policy” course at Harvard's Ed School and then co-hosted the AEI-Fordham Emerging Education ...
The Save Our Seas 2.0 Act purports to offer a bipartisan solution to the unthinkable amount of plastic — 11 million metric tons, a figure predicted to nearly triple ...
Update: Former Vice President Joe Biden committed at the March 15th Democratic debate that his running mate would be a woman. His campaign confirmed the ...
Four years ago today, a million people streamed onto the national mall for one of the most anticipated speeches of the new century: Barack Obama's inaugural ...
It seemed like a story of hope after one of defeat. A few years after filming the 2009 short doc The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant in Moraine, Ohio, ...
Joe Biden commands a boardroom. Meeting with the Times editorial board [Related: What Is an Editorial Board?] on Dec. 16, he moved fluidly among policy ...
After Republicans rallied around an austere budget proposed by the party's numbers wunderkind Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, President Obama delivered a ...
Supermac's Pat McDonagh plans to take a bite out of the motorway *service* station market in County Limerick. Mr McDonagh has confirmed to the Leader that an ...
President-elect Donald Trump ran for president apparently without understanding the job description. In the five days following his victory at the polls, the Wall ...
Carroll County Times readers responded to Commissioner Eric Bouchat's July 14 column, “In debate about healthy people wearing masks, some miss what's ...
US President Barack Obama welcomed home some of the last troops from Iraq with a stirring speech Wednesday, symbolically bringing to a close the nearly ...
James Warren, former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, is executive editor of the news rating *service* NewsGuard. CHARLEVOIX, MICH. Support our ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden was making his final push to voters on Thursday ahead of the state's Democratic presidential primary, and he said his ...
On a recent afternoon, Senator Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, could be found inside a tent, pitched beside a pond in Claude Moore ...
