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President Abraham Lincoln died 150 years ago, just days after Gen. Robert E. Lee surrende...

George Floyd's death and the ensuing protests have reignited the American conversation on...

The Supreme Court announced a milestone decision Monday, ruling that job discrimination o...

The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have sparked a renewed dialo...

The British city of Leicester has spent more than two months as the United Kingdom’...

Former FBI official Peter Strzok has been a target of President Trump's ire for his role ...

Recent reporting from veteran journalist Bob Woodward of The Washington Post created poli...

The United Kingdom is planning tough new legislation to facilitate the deportation of und...

Until the coronavirus pandemic struck, the cruise industry was enjoying a boom period, ge...

Former Secretary of State James Baker’s distinguished career and service to every R...

In a year when racism has been front and center in Americans’ minds, how can we bre...

Four of America’s first five presidents were born and raised within a 60-mile radiu...

Coronavirus is spreading across the United States more widely than it did in previous wav...

Coronavirus is spiking in parts of the U.S. spared the worst of the pandemic in its early...

Philadelphia protests over the killing of Walter Wallace Jr. represent only the latest in...

How are state and local governments verifying the accuracy of the vote in this critical e...

While Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health and other health experts are...

This has been a year of huge events and milestones, from the coronavirus pandemic to the ...

As President Trump presses forward with legal challenges to the election and reiterates f...

Ethnic-Armenian forces last week handed over two regions to Azerbaijani control as part o...

In the Greek island village of Antio, home to the world's most endangered language, aging...

As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches millions of people are out of work and struggling ...

The American barn is a cultural icon, but one that is quickly disappearing. In Port Austi...

Megan Rapinoe is best known for her successful soccer career, leading the U.S. women's na...

Our November pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, "Now Read This," is "The Poe...

Our November pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, "Now Read This," is "The Poe...

Sometimes it's the little things that get us through the hard times, and for many people ...

The Most Rev. Michael Curry is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the U.S. H...

The poet who will carry on a tradition and present her new work, "The HillWe Climb" at th...

The one and only Jerry Seinfeld has had a big year with a Netflix specialand a new book. ...

The January pick for our “Now Read This” book club was a book of essaysexplor...

Last year, the Trump administration signed a deal with the Taliban thatwould have U.S. an...

Afghanistan has suffered immeasurable loss for years on battlefields and inbombings, but ...

Afghan security forces are strained to the limit and unable to stop rampantviolence fract...

Rep. Madeleine Dean from Pennsylvania is perhaps best known these days forher high-profil...

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a cautious timetableending the count...

All of us face the risk that extreme weather events like the recent one inTexas will beco...

What makes a person successful? For Professor Angela Duckworth, the answeris grit, an int...

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student tointegrate into an ...

It is a tumultuous time in the news business, with a perilous financiallandscape and sign...

COVID-19 vaccines were developed with record-breaking speed, and by latelast year they we...

This week marks a turning point at one of the nation's premier newspapers.Washington Post...

For many, it's a time of uncertainty and isolation. But in poet TessTaylor's humble opini...

Daily reports of disturbing racial incidents and what appear to bedeepening racial divisi...

Filmed before the Georgia shootings, writer Te-Ping Chen shares with us her"Humble Opinio...

Aquaponics, a system of farming that uses no soil, also uses far less waterthan tradition...

The Stonehenge landscape, one of the most visited ancient sites in England,is in the spot...

As the Biden administration continues to face questions about its responseplan to stem th...

With 9.5 million Americans, or 17 percent of tenants, in the U.S. stillbehind on their re...

Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois, made headlines recentlywhen she threat...