Gillian Brockell

In 1910, House Speaker Joseph G. Cannon endured an intraparty revolt that diluted his power and helped doom Republicans in the next elections.

As the country celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, Sylvia Mendez’s role in setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education has been forgotten and overlooked.

As President Biden visits Israel Wednesday, here’s a tour through the history of presidential visits to war zones—some of them covert, rash and even life-threatening.

There has never been a substantiated case of a child being seriously injured or killed by a Halloween treat from a stranger. But there’s been plenty of panic.

A cache of love letters from the French and Indian War sat unopened for nearly 265 years. Now the letters to French sailors have finally been revealed.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman joins an ... interesting ... pantheon of founders ousted from their own organizations.

The new season of “The Crown” shows Princess Diana rejecting Dodi al-Fayed’s proposal hours before their car crash. But a key detail about the ring doesn’t match reality.

After he decided to resign, Richard Nixon cried in the arms of Henry Kissinger, who died Wednesday, getting down on his knees and wailing, “What have I done?”

The special counsel and Trump’s lawyers have cited Supreme Court rulings on Nixon and presidential immunity — but two different cases with very different outcomes.

Here’s a look at other elected officials disqualified by the same provision the Colorado Supreme Court is citing in removing Donald Trump from the ballot.