Gillian Brockell

Senate Democrats plan a vote to change the filibuster by King’s birthday if Republicans continue to block voting rights legislation.

Maryland, Virginia and District officials urged motorists to stay off roadways Sunday as a winter storm that is expected to bring dangerous driving conditions approached the region.

On their first date, Martin Luther King Jr. told Coretta Scott, a young music student, that she had everything he was looking for in a wife.

Benedict is accused of wrongdoing in the way he handled sexual abuse cases. Medieval popes were accused of murders, fathering illegitimate children and selling religious sacraments.

Republican lawmakers want to allow parents to sue schools that cause students “discomfort, guilt or anguish.” Here are five uncomfortable episodes from Florida history.

When an emissary told the ex-congresswoman that Clinton was considering her for the Supreme Court, she reportedly laughed and said, “Oh, think who I’d have to sit next to!”

There were more government shutdowns under Ronald Reagan than under every president since, combined. But some were as short as a few hours.

In 1910, House Speaker Joseph G. Cannon endured an intraparty revolt that diluted his power and helped doom Republicans in the next elections.

As President Biden visits Israel Wednesday, here’s a tour through the history of presidential visits to war zones—some of them covert, rash and even life-threatening.

There has never been a substantiated case of a child being seriously injured or killed by a Halloween treat from a stranger. But there’s been plenty of panic.