Cities across Missouri are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with various events in the coming months: ...

Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...

George Washington kept slaves as president, but a federal display commemorating them has now been dismantled in Philadelphia.

We can and must take action to rein in a presidential privilege that has fundamentally transcended its original bounds.

From the Gaza Riviera to the Golden Dome over Greenland, the US President has proposed several outlandish schemes ...

It all went off without a hitch. Donald Trump's huge, beautiful, helicopter coup of 2026. After two years of bungling pretty ...

Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial ...

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

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

In my entire retirement teaching career, I’ve never had a Petey, Franky, Jimmy, Johnny, Bobby and certainly not a Joe in any of my classes. What happened? Did they stop making Petes, Franks, Jims, ...

Washington's birthday, better known as Presidents Day, is the only federal holiday in February and the third such holiday of ...