Tag: History

In this April 27, 2000 photo, convicted Westside Middle School shooter Andrew Golden, 13, is escorted from a back door of the Craighead County Courthouse in Jonesboro, Ark. Golden, who legally changed his name to Drew Grant, was 11 years old when he and a teenager fatally shot four students and a teacher at an Arkansas middle school more than 20 years ago. He was released in 2007.

School shooter who killed 5 in 1998 dies in car crash

Ellie Bufkin · July 29, 2019 4:51 pm

‘The Eagle has landed,’ 50 years later

‘The Eagle has landed,’ 50 years later

Edward Hudgins · July 19, 2019 4:05 am

This undated photo of an Eagle Boat provided by the U.S. Navy, is a class built in World War I, similar to a vessel which exploded off Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on April 23, 1945.

Divers find last US warship sunk by German sub in World War II

Tim Pearce · July 18, 2019 10:09 pm

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks at the 2019 Essence Festival at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Saturday, July 6, 2019, in New Orleans.

Omar compares the Israel boycott movement to the Boston Tea Party

Mike Brest · July 17, 2019 7:26 pm

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking as reporters leave the room during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Washington.

Constitutional scholars question impeaching Trump for ‘bigotry’

Steven Nelson · July 17, 2019 5:21 pm

In this July 19, 1969 photograph, crowds watch as U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy's car is pulled from water at the Dyke Bridge in Edgartown, Mass. It's been 50 years since the fateful automobile accident that killed a woman and thwarted Kennedy's presidential aspirations.

Beltway Confidential

Chappaquiddick was pure tragedy

Quin Hillyer · July 17, 2019 1:31 pm

The ‘malaise’ plus 40, an inelegant elegy

Craig Shirley and Francesca Goerg · July 17, 2019 3:47 am

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks with the media at the Capitol in Salem, Oregon.

Oregon to require public schools to teach about the Holocaust

Regina Barton · July 16, 2019 8:38 pm

The House Rules Committee on Tuesday rejected a proposal to block the Treasury Department from replacing President Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

Democrats hammered Trump over Tubman $20 slow rollout. Obama set the timeline

Tim Pearce · July 16, 2019 12:18 am

New model depicting ancient Rome with extraordinary detail opens to public

Anthony Leonardi · July 15, 2019 7:34 pm

Women visit the Bent Pyramid during an during an event opening the pyramid and its satellites for visitors in Dashur, Egypt, Saturday, July 13, 2019.

Egypt opens two ancient pyramids to tourists

Ellie Bufkin · July 14, 2019 4:56 pm

Democratic presidential candidates are turning into gloom merchants

Dan Hannan · July 12, 2019 3:00 am