The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.

Los Angeles residents and experts say the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests is reminiscent of a long-standing dynamic in the state and around the country.

Ambitious California politicians are already eyeing a new office that will be a natural launchpad to the governorship. But ...

Its first elected class included U.S. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin and first U.S. President George Washington. In response to the news, Dr. Khuri remarked, “I am particularly proud to have been ...

During Sunday's George Washington University commencement, alongside the thousands of undergraduate and graduate students receiving degrees, a D.C. legend was also honored. Eleanor Holmes Norton ...

The founders didn’t foresee flight — but they knew a throne when they saw one. And to this George Washington scholar, Qatar’s $400 million jet gift to President Donald Trump reads like a ...

Presidents had traditionally followed in George Washington’s footsteps by foregoing a third term, with the tradition becoming law in 1951. Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian ...

While the two-term precedent was set by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — the first and third presidents of the U.S. — when they both chose not to run for a third term, the 22nd ...

Beginning with George Washington, who made a point of stepping down in 1797 after two terms in office, every president until Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940s served no more than two full elected terms.

Trump ranked Washington as the second best president in American history — after Trump, naturally. The chutzpah was off the hook. For the most part, Virginia’s elected Republicans seemed ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump was elected chairman of the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, after vowing to fire board members and name himself chairman.He replaces David Rubenstein, a ...