The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Mount Oread, a modest hill far from Worcester, is part of the sprawling campus of the University of Kansas. Visitors to the ...

His political era was far from ‘undistinguished.’ ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon has provided possible options to President Donald Trump as he decides any next steps on Iran. But Hegseth would not tell lawmakers on ...

And in subsequent decades, they added civil service protections for more workers, and it grew and grew and grew. ARABLOUEI: At first, the Pendleton Act only covered about 10% of federal jobs - a ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to make the government efficient in the first place, ending a patronage ...

He was inaugurated as president in 1881, a time when the country was still healing from the wounds of the Civil War. He was considered effective, but was assassinated just nine months into his term.

Arthur William Wiggin, 84, of Plaistow, died Jan. 27, 2025. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he joined the Exeter Police Department in 1966 and was appointed to the N.H. State Police in 1969, serving with ...