POLITICS

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was the most influential person of 2019, according to TIME magazine.

Legislation passed this week requires the flag to be flown at the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and more.

In the late 1980s, David Hasselhoff enjoyed an unlikely career as a pop musician in Germany. Did the 'Baywatch' star help bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall?

The World Monuments Fund recently released its World Monuments Watch for 2020. Here are the cultural and historic sites at risk around the world.

Hawaii’s ties with Japan are strong today, but they could have been much stronger if King Kalākaua's secret plan to form a political alliance had succeeded in 1881.

According to 10 Downing Street, Larry "spends his days greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defenses, and testing antique furniture for napping quality."

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of our country's most stylish and elegant icons for decades, but she was no empty, aloof beauty.

Twenty-ninth president Warren G. Harding had a code name for his genitals—and a big family secret that was revealed nearly a century after his death.

Sixty-four percent of women in civic, corporate, and political leadership roles in the U.S. are alumnae of the Girls Scouts of America—including these famous faces.

Citizens of the European Union may not have to worry about when to change their clocks for much longer—Daylight Saving Time could be abolished in Europe in a few years.

Our nation's third president bribed a reporter and kept a pet mockingbird. For more on Jefferson’s life, accomplishments, and controversies, take a look at this assembly of 25 facts.

Read on to discover which American president wanted to be a concert violinist, which carried a dictionary around in his pocket, who burned his official White House portrait, and why Joe Biden's dog is making history.