Most folks interested in SC history are familiar with the name John Rutledge. He is memorialized through one of Charleston’s downtown streets and the John Rutledge House Inn operates out of the ...

Barack Obama, who will be sworn in as the nation's 44th -- and first African-American -- president Tuesday. And the obsession is certainly not lost on the president-elect. On January 10, he and his ...

On January 26, 1907, John Millington Synge's “The Playboy of the Western World” opened at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. The ...

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was speaking at a political rally near a train station in the city of Nara ...

President Donald Trump's housing finance team is quietly reshaping the mortgage market by letting government-backed lenders ...

Donald Trump is leaning harder than ever into the idea that the United States should be run like a corporation, with himself as chief executive. Supporters see a hard‑charging dealmaker cutting ...

Dr. William Foege, a leader in the global eradication of smallpox, has died. He was 89. Foege was director of the U.S.

After his sojourn in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1836, Henry Wilson returned to Natick, Mass., where he had earned his ...

The upcoming Netflix series will explore "the intimate lives, loves, rivalries and tragedies that shaped the most iconic ...

Dr. William H. Foege, an international public health giant credited as a visionary in the earliest days of Bill and Melinda Gates’ global health programs, and who developed the vaccination strategy ...

William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...

The District of Columbia's longtime delegate is closing out her career in Congress. Eleanor Holmes Norton filed paperwork Sunday to terminate her campaign for reelection. The 88-year-old veteran of ...