Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Most of the 45 men who have served as president were e indifferent to the needs of Black folks or actively opposed to ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

U.S. President Trump is claiming Canadians would have better health-care coverage if Canada was a U.S. state. Andrew Johnson has the details.

In 1867 President Andrew Johnson thought about trying to buy Greenland. So did President William Taft in 1910. During the Second World War the US occupied Greenland to prevent anyone else from ...

In 1869, Mr Andrew Johnson awarded pardons to three people convicted of fraud. But just days later, President Ulysses S. Grant took office and recalled the members of the US Marshals Service ...

President Trump signals plans to weaken the Department of Education, throwing into question the fate of financial aid and funding for underserved students.

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a ceremony for former President Jimmy Carter as Carter lies in state at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C. J. Scott Applewhite ...

Former President Joe Biden has set a record for presidential pardons with 8,064 clemency actions as US leaders have granted ... Among the presidents before 1900, Andrew Johnson granted 7,654 ...