National-party conflicts over age, experience, and ideology are playing out in the Maine Senate primary between Janet Mills ...

Since the mid-1970s, Washington’s budget fights have sometimes brought the federal government to a halt. Some closures ...

The ongoing government shutdown persists, but is it the longest the nation has seen? These are longest shutdowns in U.S.

Former President Richard Nixon imposed wage and price controls in 1971 to stabilize a slowing economy. The move helped him ...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.9% in September, from 8.4% in August, a big drop that in normal times would be welcome news for a presidential incumbent seeking reelection in just over a month.

Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden face off on Tuesday in a televised presidential debate, part of a 60-year-old tradition marked by some of the most memorable moments of modern ...

Forever stamps commemorating Jimmy Carter are now on sale from the United States Postal Service (USPS), coinciding with what would have been the former president's 101st birthday. Carter, who served ...

Several would-be visitors were turned away from the museum honoring former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta, one of many presidential libraries affected by the shutdown. By Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon ...

America's Forever stamp has another new face. On Wednesday, Oct. 1, on what would have been the late president's 101st birthday, the United States Postal Service released a new stamp to honor former ...

A new documentary called "The President and the Dragon" looks at the late former President Jimmy Carter's effort to eradicate guinea worm, a parasite once found across Africa and parts of Asia. Since ...