POLITICS

Much longer than four score and seven years ago, Abraham Lincoln delivered the most famous two-minute speech in history.

Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist and former South African president, was released from a life sentence on this day in 1990.

New prime minister Sanna Marin is hoping to encourage gender equality and a better work-life balance.

Legislation passed this week requires the flag to be flown at the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and more.

In the late 1980s, David Hasselhoff enjoyed an unlikely career as a pop musician in Germany. Did the 'Baywatch' star help bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall?

The World Monuments Fund recently released its World Monuments Watch for 2020. Here are the cultural and historic sites at risk around the world.

According to 10 Downing Street, Larry "spends his days greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defenses, and testing antique furniture for napping quality."

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of our country's most stylish and elegant icons for decades, but she was no empty, aloof beauty.

Twenty-ninth president Warren G. Harding had a code name for his genitals—and a big family secret that was revealed nearly a century after his death.

Citizens of the European Union may not have to worry about when to change their clocks for much longer—Daylight Saving Time could be abolished in Europe in a few years.

Our nation's third president bribed a reporter and kept a pet mockingbird. For more on Jefferson’s life, accomplishments, and controversies, take a look at this assembly of 25 facts.

Read on to discover which American president wanted to be a concert violinist, which carried a dictionary around in his pocket, who burned his official White House portrait, and why Joe Biden's dog is making history.