Today’s edition of quick hits.

African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday for talks aimed at averting a new civil war after ...

After weeks of White House hype and public anxiety, President Donald Trump is set to announce a barrage of self-described ...

Presented by National Council on Aging{beacon}IN HIS BROADEST TRADE MOVE YET, President Trump will outline sweeping tariffs ...

It’s impossible for the Smithsonian to truthfully tell the American story without mentioning racism, sexism and other forms ...

A famous southern magnolia tree thought to have been planted by President Andrew Jackson at the White House nearly 200 years ...

When three Jewish Obama campaign staffers hosted an impromptu Seder, they didn’t realize they’d be setting the groundwork for ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...

History is under threat. The call is coming from the White House In the latest assault on black history, President Trump ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...