The debate serves as a valedictory and warning from Carter. The event also demonstrated his basic decency, good humor and ...

Democratic candidate Jay Jones focused heavily on attacking Donald Trump rather than Republican opponent Jason Miyares during ...

President Trump holds the record for the longest continuous government shutdown, but Carter and Reagan have records, too.

Total federal debt was $620 billion in 1976. Why 1976? In a recent column, Holman Jenkins referenced Jimmy Carter’s contention in a 1976 debate that “The best way to control inflation is t ...

Joan Kennedy, prominent U.S. mental health and addiction advocate and ex-wife of late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, has reportedly ...

The government has repeatedly shut down since Ronald Reagan was president, but Trump has overseen the longest.

Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden face off on Tuesday in a televised presidential debate, part of a 60-year-old tradition marked by some of the most memorable moments of modern ...

There will be hurdles ahead in the path to peace, but Trump's address to the Knesset was the sort of historic moment ...

Donald Trump has no place in my personal pantheon. Compared to those of his predecessors who have held office in my lifetime, ...

That's because in 1980, the attorney general under President Jimmy Carter issued a narrow interpretation of the ... The first US shutdown occurred shortly after in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan ...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.9% in September, from 8.4% in August, a big drop that in normal times would be welcome news for a presidential incumbent seeking reelection in just over a month.

President Donald Trump seized on the government shutdown this week as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and ...