On the front lawn of the now-destroyed Nottoway Plantation were charred relics of atrocities gone by: a pair of flat-back rocking chairs, a wooden end table, and other sorry debris of what — until a ...

Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those ...

The speech made by Axios correspondent Alex Thompson at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last weekend calling out the media's weak coverage of Joe Biden continues to make waves in Washington ...

The wire service on Wednesday accused The White House of continuing to bar its reporters from the press pool despite a judge’s order that called the restriction a violation of the First Amendment.

They burned the White House to the ground in 1814 and won the war ... The war saw key battles, including the burning of Washington, DC, by British forces in 1814 and the defense of Baltimore, which ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will skip the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner next month after early friction with the press corps. Leavitt, who has clashed ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that the White House press office will choose which outlets get to cover the president in close quarters, replacing the decision ...

The Trump administration is attempting to wrench control of the White House Press Corps from the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) — a move the independent journalistic organization ...

In 1814, British forces set fire to the White House during the War of 1812 in retaliation for American actions in the Canadas. The burning affected much of Washington, DC, at that time. From the ...

“I think it’s critical to recognize that the initial construction of the White House, as well as other early-19th-century projects, like the reconstruction after the burning of the White House ...

In August 1814, the British brought the war ... Soon the interior of the White House began collapsing into its burning wooden floors. “The spectators stood in awful silence,” a witness reported.