Beginning with the annexation of Texas, which voted to become the 28th state in 1845, Polk aggressively expanded America’s ...

What does the Insurrection Act allow presidents to do? Trump wants to use it to send troops in response to protests after ICE ...

The threat follows days of unrest triggered by an expanded operation by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Donald Trump would not be the first president to invoke the Insurrection Act, as he has now threatened to do as a way to send ...

The Insurrection Act is found in Title 10 - Armed Forces, Subtitle A – General Military Law, Part I – Organization and ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The city of Spokane and members of the Downtown Spokane Partnership Clean Team will spend Tuesday cleaning up paint that was thrown onto an Abraham Lincoln statue downtown. The ...

Guy Gugliotta, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 296 pp. In October 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant invoked the Third Anti-KKK Enforcement Act, ...

People gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday to pay their respects to the penny. A mock funeral, hosted by financial management platform Ramp, was held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, ...

Hundreds of mock mourners headed to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday to attend a “funeral” for the penny. Along with musicians playing taps, there were a couple of Abraham Lincoln look-alikes, actors ...

A historic portrait of George Washington is being auctioned off next month. It's among the paintings that inspired the first president's image on the $1 bill, and it has a colorful past. Paintings of ...