Former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral is an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of presidential state funerals ...

The problem is not just that Republican officials keep peddling fake quotes from the Founding Fathers. The problem is also ...

Yet as we approach the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, a candid consideration of some of the darker aspects our ...

A 16-year-old was found dead on the side of a road in Lincolnton. The teenager's death could be a homicide, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said in a news release on Monday. A male teenager ...

There are 75,000 U.S. streets named for Lincoln, but the first known was in Bloomington, which honored the beloved local ...

For more than two centuries, U.S. presidential politics and presidential lives have found various pathways through and beyond ...

A presidential funeral in the United States is a carefully orchestrated event, blending solemn traditions and heartfelt ...

President Joe Biden has officially commuted 37 of the 40 federal death sentences — all except ... permits no legislative restrictions. President Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most famous ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks ...

House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence began on Friday without death row inmate Robert Roberson Roberson was originally set to testify, but it was blocked by Ken Paxton late Thursday night ...

Lincoln Lewis has led the tributes to beloved Australian author John Marsden after his death. Marsden, known for his best-selling Tomorrow book series, died at his home at the age of 74 ...

A Texas House committee whose eleventh-hour subpoena of death row inmate Robert Roberson bought him at least three more months to live has again summoned the condemned man to testify at the ...