Presidents Day is used every year to celebrate all presidents of the U.S. and George Washington’s birthday, with some states also celebrating President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has endorsed Harriet Hageman, the Trump-backed opponent of incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming -- a rare endorsement from leadership in a divisive GOP primary, and one that marks the culmination of a simmering feud betwee…

In October 1977, when then Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke announced plans to trek up and down some 900 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border to hunt down undocumented immigrants, the uproar erupted swiftly. Duke insisted they would report anyon…

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Debate is raging on Capitol Hill over whether to ban lawmakers from trading stocks. Insider's "Conflicted Congress" project has found widespread violations.

The CDC designated a half dozen new places "very high" risk for travel on Monday, including South Korea and French Polynesia. Almost 140 destinations are now at Level 4, the highest risk category.

The "Let's go, Brandon" chant is a euphemism for "Fuck Joe Biden." It emerged after a NASCAR race in October last year.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) postponed a meeting to discuss the authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than five, again pushing back the timeline for vaccinating the youngest Americans. The FDA’s Vaccines and R…

Peter Thiel, the controversial billionaire tech founder and investor, has used his fortune to encourage kids to skip college, to back a lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker Media and to donate to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump when many in Silicon Valley…

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Edited by JFK Jr., it features an interview with Bill Gates and the tagline “Indictment Day: Will Hillary Get Busted?”

Former Washington Commanders employees and members of Congress are pressuring the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell to release a report about the team's history of sexual harassment and its workplace culture

President Joe Biden has approved the deployment of 3,000 US troops to Poland, Germany and Romania to bolster NATO countries in Eastern Europe.

Washington joins other major professional sports teams to drop names Indigenous people say are racist.

After two years of speculation, the Washington Football Team revealed its new name and new look on Wednesday as the Washington Commanders.

President Joe Biden's bid to put his mark on the U.S. Federal Reserve faces a key test in two weeks time when the U.S. Senate Banking Committee votes on his renomination of Jerome Powell to be Fed chair and on a diverse slate of four other Fed nominees.

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The Federal Reserve can move sooner to start reducing its bond holdings than in the past and aggressive action to shrink the U.S. central bank's portfolio could allow it to take a shallower path on interest rate increases, Kansas City Fed President Esther Geo…

Moderna announced Thursday it has launched early-stage clinical trials of an HIV mRNA vaccine.

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RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

George Washington had horse teeth,,,, why did they even say that https://t.co/Yzqt6HeOR1

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

George Washington... do we really have to say goodbye?

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @jasrifootball: DON’T sleep on the #Steelers offense: QB: Kenny Pickett RB: Najee Harris WR: Diontae Johnson WR: George Pickens WR: All…

RT @FBAvoices: FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY In 1890 George W. Johnson Became the First Foundational Black American to Record Commer…

RT @mikopeled: Congress voted to insist that Israel is not a racist state. As someone who grew up in Israel on the privileged side of the a…

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RT @JWArminius: Wrong. When George Washington was elected, only white propertied men could vote. As John Adams himself said: "it is danger…

RT @joanwalsh: On Florida's list of slaves who made good: Betty Washington Lewis. But she was not a slave. She was George Washington's sist…

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The upshot is the thread is that the Florida standard is rife with easily found errors and the majority of those included were never slaves and one woman was not a slave, was white, and was George Washington’s white sister. https://t.co/EVv8OuUxhp

RT @culturaltutor: It's no coincidence that Horatio Greenough's statue of George Washington, made in 1832, portrays America's first Preside…

RT @dmills3710: “In depths of Winter, when nothing but Hope & Virtue could survive..” Thomas Paine Before crossing the Delaware River, Ge…

RT @JWArminius: Wrong. When George Washington was elected, only white propertied men could vote. As John Adams himself said: "it is danger…

RT @PresupPerry: @redeemed_zoomer 1) Robert E Lee was a godly man who hated slavery, couldn't wait for it to end, and took the side of the…

RT @JWArminius: Wrong. When George Washington was elected, only white propertied men could vote. As John Adams himself said: "it is danger…

RT @JWArminius: Wrong. When George Washington was elected, only white propertied men could vote. As John Adams himself said: "it is danger…

RT @PresupPerry: @redeemed_zoomer 1) Robert E Lee was a godly man who hated slavery, couldn't wait for it to end, and took the side of the…

RT @ggwash: Prince George’s County leads the Washington region in traffic fatalities – it’s not even close. A new bill in Prince George’s C…

RT @RealJohnGlover: Congrats to my longtime friend, from our first days on stage at the San Diego globe to our Kennedy & George Washingto…

RT @RealJohnGlover: Congrats to my longtime friend, from our first days on stage at the San Diego globe to our Kennedy & George Washingto…

RT @RealJohnGlover: Congrats to my longtime friend, from our first days on stage at the San Diego globe to our Kennedy & George Washingto…

RT @PresupPerry: @redeemed_zoomer 1) Robert E Lee was a godly man who hated slavery, couldn't wait for it to end, and took the side of the…

In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown (The American Revolution Series) ZLIBXTU https://t.co/nYj4OG37A8

RT @ScottAdamsSays: Someone told me I am being too negative about the country. Allow me to correct that. At the moment, we have the smartes…