“All politics is local,” Tip O’Neill, the patron saint of American politics, famously repeated throughout his very long political career. By that, the former House speaker meant that positions taken ...

“I have enough friends in Ireland that all know this. This guy’s a laughing stock. They think Americans have lost their heads. They’ve seen this movie before when he was in from ‘16 to ‘20. But that ...

Then-Republican presidential nominee Gov. Ronald Reagan talks with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, director of Operation Push, outside the organization's headquarters in Chicago on Aug. 5,1980. Nancy ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Passengers across the two major airports in the D.C.-metro area were seeing delays as severe weather pushes toward the DMV on Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration ...

On St. Patrick’s Day, 1988, an unexpected visitor arrived at Pat Troy’s Irish pub, Ireland’s Own, in Alexandria, Virginia — President Ronald Reagan. The pub, now closed, had been a favorite watering ...

Candidates fanned out across the state to hit traditional campaign stops in the final weekend before Tuesday’s primary, wooing local audiences in an election increasingly overcome by national events ...

Before he was a pioneering figure of the outlaw country movement, Merle Haggard was just a plan old outlaw. In 1958, after a life of petty crime, a botched jail attempt landed the 19-year-old new ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he announced he was running for U.S. Senate last fall, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton did more than add fuel to his own political ...

When he announced he was running for U.S. Senate last fall, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton did more than add fuel to his own political ambitions. He also sparked a complete free-for-all for his North ...