Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law today, in first legislative win since returning to office. The law, named after a 22-year-old nursing student who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has struggled answer questions at his Senate confirmation hearing about how he would reform Medicaid or Medicare, the government health care programs used by millions of

Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the Revolutionary War era are handwritten in cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of penmanship.

Curtis was the first man of color — a Kaw Native American — to be vice president of the United States, from 1929-1933. There was no other multiracial individual in the office until Kamala Harris about 90 years later in 2021.

There’s never a bad time to honor the state’s best boys hoops stars from over the years. And by over the years, we really fired up the time machine.

Millions of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas have already been made public, but President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of still-classified files.

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Curtis Jones scored 33 points, Keshon Gilbert had seven of his 12 during a key run and No. 3 Iowa State pulled away late for a 76-61 win over Arizona State on Saturday.

Over recent decades, a computer programmer and prolific internet commenter has risen from the obscurity of forums and pseudonymous blogs to the pages of this newspaper, as a friend to Vice President JD Vance and as a person who influences many of the people who influence President Donald Trump.

On January 13, The National Interest published my story of the passing of Col. Perry Dahl (USAF, ret.), who had been one of the last living World War II fighter aces; Dahl had passed away..

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