Washington Avenue Immigration Station opened 19 years before Ellis Island, welcoming more than one million immigrants from Europe into the United States. Its history, however, became somewhat ...

Finally — the long-hidden paragraph. The one on Page 3 of a 1958 FBI memo, a document so secret it is literally stamped ...

JFK assassination experts are finding potentially explosive new material in the vast trove of top-secret records that President Trump ordered released ...

An initial AP review of more than 63,000 pages of records released this week found some new details about covert CIA ...

The release of the classified files regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a campaign promise of President Donald ...

DALLAS (AP) — Unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday evening.

The release was done in two batches on March 18, one at about 7 p.m. ET that consisted of 32,000 pages in 1,123 PDF files and ...

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency emphasized that some documents had nothing to do with the assassinated ...

Newly unredacted documents mostly shed light on C.I.A. sources and methods. The Justice Department is moving to disclose new ...

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser hosted a town hall to address the impact of mass layoffs of federal workers on the city, with an estimated $325 million less in revenue over the next four years.

Displayed in the rotunda at the National Archives Building, in Washington, D.C., it is perhaps the most treasured historical document in the U.S. government's possession. The original is behind ...

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