Rand Paul (R-Ky.) indirectly said it was nature's call that forced him to stop talking: "I would try to go another 12 hours and try to break Strom Thurmond's record, but there are some limits to ...

For many years, there’s been a cherished Washington lie about Strom Thurmond. The lie is that Thurmond, though once a leading segregationist, later renounced that view as morally wrong.

Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from ...

Was Strom Thurmond a racist? The late U.S. senator’s legacy is under scrutiny as current and former students at the University of South Carolina call for renaming the Strom Thurmond Wellness and ...

Retired Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He was 100 and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the mixed-race daughter of onetime segregationist senator Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for more than 70 years, has died.

Strom Thurmond, died Monday, her family’s spokesman said. She was 87. Washington-Williams kept her father’s identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades ...

Former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond (search), the nation's longest-serving senator and former "Dixiecrat" (search) candidate for the presidency, died Thursday in Edgefield, S.C. He was 100.

The oldest and longest-serving senator ever turns 100 years old today. South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond is the first sitting senator ever to become a centenarian; and he does so one month ...