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 ...

John George, also known as John Hardy, disappeared days before Christmas during a trip to Spain. His family believe he was lured there on the promise of a holiday and have since been told he was ...

Confirming he was going back to hospital to get checked out, George asked whether any of his followers had experienced similar symptoms, or knew or someone else who had. “I’m in the hospital ...

Writing a biography ... notably Washington hostess Gwen Cafritz and Eleanor Roosevelt — disdained her, until they, too, were won over. A family friend introduced Perle to George Mesta, a ...