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

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

President Joe Biden used his farewell address Wednesday to do many things. He expressed his gratitude to the American people ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black ...

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 ...

Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United ...

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

George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.

It would have created a new Washington agency to be a watchdog of the state’s oil industry. Without the impetus of climate hawk Gov. Jay Inslee, the Legislature will shift from trying to tame ...

11 attack on the Pentagon, and the Washington-area sniper shootings. When Ward made the move to television reporting, his first job was at WKBW-TV in Buffalo. He returned to Washington in 2006 and ...

More talent has been brought into the organization with what the Washington Nationals did in the 2025 international free agency class. With Jan. 15 marking the first day that players in the 2025 ...