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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced that the Fed’s benchmark interest rate would remain unchanged at 5.25% to 5.5% due to inflation still remaining too high. He also said it was “u…

Atlantic Staff Writer David Frum - speaking from Woodrow Wilson’s Washington, D.C., home - reconsidered the 28th president’s legacy, including his efforts to persuade the U.S. to join the Le…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave remarks in Brussels, Belgium, at a reception celebrating the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He was joined by U.S. A…

Timothy Carney argued that modern parenting is producing a generation of children with record rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness and says a more old-fashioned approach is needed. T…

This U.S. Office of War Information newsreel reports on events relating to VE Day - the May 8, 1945, surrender of Nazi Germany. German generals are shown signing the unconditional surrender …

During testimony before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on President Biden’s Department of Education fiscal year 2025 budget request, Education Secretary Cardona responded to the pro-Pa…

“There’s the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos,” President Biden said from the Roosevelt Room of White House in response to protests happening on college campuses around the…

Tulane University history professor Rien Fertel discussed the erection of Confederate monuments in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century at the same time as efforts to integrate and un…

Politico national security reporter Alexander Ward talked about the Biden administration’s efforts to restore America’s influence globally following the Trump administration’s America First …

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow argued that authoritarianism has existed on the fringe far-right of U.S. politics for nearly a century. Politics and Prose Bookstore and George Washington University in…

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and other Republican members of the committee held a news conference at George Washington University amid pro-Palestinian protests taking p…

Publishing industry analyst Brenna Connor discussed sales trends and bestsellers in the first quarter of 2024, as well as predictions for the remainder of the year. About Books also reported…

Jim Davis and Michael Graham looked at the decline in church attendance in the U.S by examining who us leaving, why, and how to bring people back to church. This event was held at the Cathed…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act during a news conference from Capit…

In 1975, a Senate committee led by Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) examined alleged abuses within the U.S. intelligence community.

Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea argued that the U.S. needs to be more aggressive towards Russia and China and called for a foreign policy more in line with that of the Reagan and Trump admini…

Known as the pope’s astronomer, Vatican Observatory director and author Brother Guy Consolmagno considered how the art of storytelling can illuminate both astronomy and religious faith. Frie…

Kathleen Sebelius, former Health and Human Services secretary in the Obama administration, and former Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) joined White House Gun Violence Prevention Office Deputy Direc…

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough testified on President Biden’s 2025 and 2026 budget requests for the VA before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. He took several questions on v…

The historical legacy of singer Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” her lament about the lynchings of African Americans, was considered in a conversation that included the composer’s son. Roos…