(CNN)The White House was always one of the busiest social hubs in Washington, accustomed to hosting at least three to five events per day, ranging from meetings with dignitaries and VIPs to smaller l…
President Trump speaks during an event at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D., on Friday. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg via Getty Images President Trump speaks during an event at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D., on Friday. Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated at 7:43 am ET On the…
A man fired shots during an altercation at an Alabama shopping mall, killing an 8-year-old boy and wounding three others, including a young girl.It happened Friday in the middle of the afternoon at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, a Birmingham suburb, police said.The boy who died was Royta Giles, a Jonesboro Elementary School student on his…
WASHINGTON—It was a text-message debate that led Scott Sandage and Jonathan White to discover a vital American artifact last weekend: a long-forgotten letter showing how Frederick Douglass really felt about a statue of Abraham Lincoln and a slave. Messrs. Sandage and White are history professors who have been on opposite sides of a dispute over…
July 4, 2020 | 8:15am Enlarge Image The USS Ronald Reagan, one of the ships being deployed to the South China Sea. YONHAP/AFP/Getty Images A fleet of US warships have been deployed to the South China Sea and are expected to hold some of the largest military drills the area has seen in recent years.…