Sidewalk signage, a hostile congressional hearing, and a playbook that already failed once

The Reflecting Pool is hidden behind fencing. The stories we tell this week won't be.

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After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on Feb...

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I want to start off this week by taking a few minutes to wish those of you, who are heading back into the classroom this year, all the best.

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On Capitol Hill, one of President Trump’s most consequential and controversial nominees made his case for the top job at the Department of Health and Human Services. In his first of two hearings, form...

Hundreds of free African Americans were kidnapped by the Army of Northern Virginia, in June-July 1863, in Maryland and Pennsylvania, during the Gettysburg Campaign.