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The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days ...

Flags have flown at half-staff for nearly 30 days following former president Jimmy Carter's death. Here is when flags return ...

The confluence of events is thanks to a mandate of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution specifying Jan. 20 as the ...

Donald Trump's being inaugurated on the day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. feels like a cruel irony. It is a cruel irony that the nation will commemorate the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. on ...

Former Oregon lawmaker Margaret Carter spoke during the World Arts Foundation Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. event on Jan. 20 ... It marked the 39th annual MLK Day event put on by the World Arts ...

On Jan. 26, 2005, the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon thought he was quoting Martin Luther King Jr.: “You declare ... to defend itself in the 1967 Six Day War. He was also right to criticize ...

She said that despite Trump’s decision, the country must remember the “extraordinary courage and valor of the law enforcement heroes who stood in the breach and ensured that democracy survived on that ...

The announcement did not give a reason for Obama’s absence. It comes after she missed Jimmy Carter’s state funeral—where she would have been seated next to Trump. CNN reported at the time that Obama ...

He is one of only three US presidents never to have had any presidential pets. When he assumed office in 2016, he was the first in 100 years not to have pets in the White House, with only James K.

The president-elect will take the oath of office today in a pared down gathering that was moved indoors because of forecasted frigid temperatures.