Alan K. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who served three controversy-rich terms in the U.S. Senate - a tenure animated by a ...

In contrast to the smallness of today’s politics, Sen. Al Simpson of Wyoming was a giant. Both physically — at 6 feet 7 ...

On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein, who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in ...

When Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States at the age of 47, the former Illinois senator made history ...

Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits of their new minority and culminated with a deeply personal rupture over ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failure to install a fellow vaccine critic to a key government post is testing the limits of how far the US health secretary can go to promote his public-health agenda.

A newly released video shows the moment federal immigration agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist whose detention has sparked waves of protest across the country.

NEW YORK (AP) — Handcuffed and shackled, Mahmoud Khalil was rushed from New York to Louisiana last weekend in a manner that left the outspoken Columbia University graduate student feeling like he was ...