A Brief History of Consequential Deaths in Congress
Dianne Feinstein, who died on Thursday at 90, was the first senator to die in office since John McCain in 2018.But since the first Congress convened in 1789, deaths in…
Dianne Feinstein, who died on Thursday at 90, was the first senator to die in office since John McCain in 2018.But since the first Congress convened in 1789, deaths in…
In her basement on the South Side of Chicago, Crystal Vance beamed a flashlight onto the water source for her home: a rusted and leaking lead pipe.Ms. Vance, 35, knows…
There was trivia, doll-making and a chocolate marble cake that was gone in minutes. Hundreds of admirers of Jimmy Carter celebrated his 99th birthday in Atlanta on Saturday at the…
The House of Representatives passed a short-term spending measure on Saturday. If the Senate also passes the bill, the federal government could avoid a shutdown that would have come at…
The sounds of mourning have coursed through the small Christian town of Qaraqosh in northern Iraq since late Tuesday, when a fire destroyed a wedding hall in the middle of…
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih of the Maldives was defeated in the presidential runoff on Saturday, in a race that was proving to be as much a referendum on the competition…
Lori Teresa Yearwood, a journalist who after an excruciating spiral into two years of homelessness returned to reporting and wrote both about her ordeal and about people dealing with similar…
Even as a senator, Dianne Feinstein didn’t hesitate to share her gripes about San Francisco’s uneven sidewalks and dirty streets with the mayors who succeeded her.She was traveling in a…
When the Biden administration relaxed some travel restrictions on Americans visiting Cuba in May of last year, Senator Robert Menendez was having none of it.“I am dismayed,” Mr. Menendez, a…
Lecture halls at Canadian and American universities have become battlegrounds for critics and defenders of Hindu nationalism, punctuated by threats of violence and even death. Temples of Sikhs and Hindus…