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Navy Pier, of course, is a lot more than 30 years old. It first opened as Municipal Pier in 1916 — 109 years ago. But before ...

Duke Ellington’s birth certificate, Frederick Douglass’s will, and other documents in the DC archives are in a building that ...

The answer is — and it’s not going to be a pleasant answer — the answer is that the violence ends if it boils over into a ...

History can be cruel. Charles Sumner, the great abolitionist senator from Massachusetts, is remembered only for being beaten ...

The majority of layoffs will be effective Sept. 8, with some Charles City employees staying on until December.

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett might be only half the age of some of the Democratic Party's most imbecilic octogenarians, but she's catching up fast when it comes to proving she's inane in public. At the ...

The driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Independence Day has again brought to top of mind the first tier of our nation’s leaders, namely George Washington, Ben ...

The answer is—and it’s not going to be a pleasant answer—the answer is that the violence ends if it boils over into a ...

Pam Harmon Memorial Garden Party was held May 28 at the Charles M. Sumner Learning Campus. The garden in the atrium honors ...