The trees come from New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. — the places attacked on 9/11 — but they are destined to dot a cobblestone plaza surrounding the ground zero memorial in NYC.

As the only person ever to be White House national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time, Henry Kissinger exercised a control over U.S. foreign policy that has rarely been equaled by anyone who was not president.

President Obama's Supreme Court Nominee, Chief Judge Merrick Garland, shares his story and his thoughts on being nominated to sit on the nation's highest court. Merrick Brian Garland is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was widely seen as...

Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Michelle Obama and Jada Pinkett Smith open the 61st GRAMMY Awards. Recording Academy is the world's leading society of musical professionals, and is dedicated to celebrating, honoring, and sustaining music's past, present and future.

A Major 5.8 earthquake rattles the north east coast of the United States on Tuesday August 23, 2011 around 1:15 PM ET. The earthquake was felt in Washington DC and New York City as well as throughout the rest of the coastal states from South Carolina to Massachusets. The Pentagon was evacuated as ...

There are years that history remembers as flash points of political change — 1776, 1848, 1968 — and when the dust settles, it seems inevitable that 2017 will join that list. It was a period of upheaval from the very start: we were only three weeks into the year, and Donald Trump’s presidency was onl

Flight Official Trailer #1 2012 - Starring Denzel Washington: In this action-packed mystery thriller, Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After...

20 years after being killed in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming, Matthew Shepard will be laid to rest at the Washington National Cathedral. Shepard's October 1998 death became an important symbol spotlighting the discrimination experienced by the LGBTQ community.

From the very heights of government and diplomacy, to fierce advocacy for democracy and refugees, Madeleine Albright set a new and trailblazing standard. The first woman to become secretary of state died Wednesday afternoon in Washington, but leaves an impressive legacy.

The commander of a US aircraft carrier hit by a major outbreak of coronavirus was ousted after writing a memo warning that decisive action was needed to save the lives of the ship's crew