The Taft administration’s early 20th-century equivalent to the Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was called the Commission on Economy and Efficiency. Unlike DOGE, created by ...

It wasn’t just George Washington that made third terms rare — presidents and governors wear out their welcome. It’s a timely ...

Americans often expect former presidents to not talk about current ones. But it’s not really a surprise that several are ...

The President of the United States is widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world. Since the ratification ...

His Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1906, for his work in settling the Russian-Japanese War. He was the first American to ...

America's first president, George Washington, set an unofficial precedent when ... but would later run as a third-party ...

This time, the A.C.L.U. is asking a federal judge in Washington not to stop the ... Anne Sullivan, William Howard Taft, Maria Tallchief, Maxwell Taylor, Tecumseh, Kateri Tekakwitha, Shirley ...

Prince George’s County police arrested two suspects in connection with what investigators call a scam targeting residents across the DMV. “This was quite ingenious,” said one of the victims ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Getting through medical school takes years of hard work, but some young doctors at Howard University want to make sure the next generation knows it’s very doable. Thursday ...

Prince William and Kate, the Princess of Wales, may hold the titles of Britain's future king and queen, but the couple's most important role is as parents to their three children, Princes George and ...

(Al Drago/For The Washington Post ... In 1909, when President William Howard Taft built the first Oval Office, it was designed in the Federal style, which is the form of Georgian neoclassicism ...

Bill died peacefully in his sleep next to his wife Susan, after a four-year journey with lung cancer. Bill was born in Elmira, New York, to Arthur Scott Welliver and Ann S. Clute. Sadly, his mom ...