A painting of George Washington is being used by the Trump administration to argue the founders were devout Christians, but historians have doubts about whether the moment depicted actually happened.

A federal judge has given a onetime truck and bus driver charged in an assassination plot against an Iranian American writer a 10-year prison sentence. Judge Lewis J. Liman sentenced Jonathan ...

On the basis that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, Christopher Nolan’s movie, The Odyssey, is having a second helping ...

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Mandelson’s links to more powerful figures have raised profound questions about the government’s vetting process and the release of key documents to parliament ...

Previously treasurer of the commercial bakery trade group, he brings to his new role a lifelong knowledge of baking that ...

Theo Baker’s How to Rule the World offers a unique perspective on the institution’s elites.

New York City played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. This museum brings the city's 18th-century history to life ...

By Beverly Gage. Simon and Schuster; 352 pages; $30. Oneworld; £22. A MERICANS drive a lot. That habit has some detrimental ...

Did President Trump just hand Democrats a gift as big as Texas? Frank Bruni: I sure hope so. And I’m betting that James ...

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll lied during the ...

A decade ago, NPR released the first episode of the Code Switch podcast. The episode's title: "Can we talk about whiteness?" ...