One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...

With the latest presidential inauguration set to take place in Washington on Monday, Eyewitness News takes a look at where the first one took place: the heart of New York City, more than two centuries ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

Fashion has always been political, but never more so than when coupled with the towering bully pulpit of the U.S. presidency.

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...

Love anything enough and it will reveal its secrets to you.” So said George Washington Carver, one of the world’s greatest of scientists, yet most modest of men. Glenn Clark, ...

Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were also awarded the nation's highest civilian honor in a White House ceremony."For the final time as president ...

WASHINTON ― President-elect Donald Trump is holding a "victory rally" in Washington for supporters the day before Inauguration Day when he will be sworn in as the 47th president. The rally at ...

Although a crucial part to the fame of the Beatles, both Lennon and George Harrison didn’t meet the requirements for the GRAMMY Awards due to them being dead for more than five years.