On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon to be 11) teams, the Boston Celtics’ Walter Brown called out a name in the ...

The removal of Colonel Susannah Meyers from her command at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland sparked a wave of misogynistic ...

The first of three new Coast Guard fast response cutters to be homeported in Kodiak is officially ready for duty, after the John Witherspoon was commissioned Thursday.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would use the power of the Justice Department to go after two officials who were highly critical of him during his first term in office ...

Alan Shepard was the first American to travel into space in 1961, and also walked on the Moon during Apollo 14 in 1971. John Glenn, meanwhile, was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 ...

Kennedy in his first seven weeks atop the Department and ... key functions like ensuring safe drinking water and alerting Americans to contaminated drugs have been decimated.

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed ...

the only African American in the room,” he added. U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan, who was the first female uniformed leader of a U.S ...

The changes — first reported by The Washington Post ... which includes the National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has tasked Vice President JD Vance with heading up ...

President Trump has fired a top U.S. military officer at NATO, Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, a termination that caused swift rebuke from Democrats in Congress. Chatfield was the country’s top ...

Unhedged gold mining company West African Resources’ Sanbrado gold operations, in Burkina Faso, had a “solid” start to this year, chairperson and CEO Richard Hyde says. He points out that ...