Former President Jimmy Carter once was offered a gift from Northern California: a 9-ton peanut carved from a redwood tree.

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s subservience to President Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.

The diplomat and socialite was one of the capital's savviest insiders. An excerpt from a new biography charts the inaugural ...

For Lyndon Johnson’s 200 million countrymen ... that he carried his files around in the sweatband of his stovepipe hat, Johnson tries to carry the whole Democratic Party in his inside coat ...

It is ironic that former US President Jimmy Carter should die at 100 and his funeral rites should take place during the remaining days ...

The inauguration of a new U.S. President is a day of pomp and ceremony, of solemn oaths and dignified celebrations. But ...

Former president’s funeral set for Jan. 9 as Biden declares national day of mourning - President-elect Donald Trump and ...

American mom in Minneapolis founded a group for Muslim women who want to enjoy the great outdoors. On a recent below-zero ...

WASHINGTON − House Speaker Mike Johnson won back his job for another term on Friday after a nail-biter finish and now has the daunting task of trying to unify a fractured but potentially ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) succeeded in keeping his gavel for the 119th Congress, winning in the House’s Speakership vote in one round Friday. Johnson, who had a one-vote margin of error, won ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was reelected to the top post in the House in a stunning floor vote on the opening day of Congress on Friday, securing the gavel on the first ballot. But the vote did ...

Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House. For now. After a handful of hard-right Republicans held out on Friday, he was reelected, winning them over not with his own personal charm but with the muscle ...