The government shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, and the Senate won't meet until Monday.

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On October 20, 1803, the US Senate would ratify the Louisiana Purchase, adding a large amount of territory west of the Mississippi River and doubling the size of the United ...

The United States Grand Prix has been on and off the Formula 1 schedule since it first appeared in 1959. Since 2012, the race ...

The United States formally took possession of Alaska, a vast territory purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, which was ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States, and the Soviet Union close to war over the ...

The United States has elected a President to lead the nation 47 times in the country's history. Not every tenure in office has come to a positive end. Eight times in United States history a President ...

During October in the United States, stores selling Halloween merchandise also are stocking their shelves with Dia de los ...