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.

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.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has renamed part of a street near the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza."

MSNBC Rachel Maddow discusses with Jackie Alemany, political reporter for the Washington Post, the FBI executing a search warrant on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, reportedly in connection with an investigation of classified material Donald Trump removed from the White House.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a video message on bullying. [Go to http://video.state.gov for more video and text transcript.]

Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily arme...

Sophisticated criminal testing is being undertaken at the Washington State Crime Lab in Cheney. KXLY Kjerstin Ramsing reports.

This is video footage of President William Jefferson Clinton speaking at the State Funeral Service for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the Har Herzl Cemetary in Jerusalem, Israel. Rabin was assassinated on November 4th, 1995 at then-named Kings of Israel Square in front of Tel Aviv's City Hall. This...

The Respect for Marriage Act official repeals the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which restricted marriage to exclusively being between a man and woman. It was trumped by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, which established same-sex marriage as a 14th Amendment right.

The White House celebrates christmas with a tap dance of the Nutcracker. The Nutcracker ballet was composed in 1892 by the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on a story written in 1816 by Prussian author Ernest Hoffman, not even close to anything American. Not until 1934 was it performed out...