Records, they say, are made to be broken, whether it's a matter of sports achievement or even a personal best. Some records, however, are in fact shameful.
On Thursday, October 20, 2022, Liz Truss told the assembled British news media that she was resigning from the most powerful political office in the country.
There are stark differences between the U.K. and the U.S. in terms of language -- what individual words mean -- and that applies to political language, too.
Coming on the heels of the death of Queen Elizabeth II comes the resignation, after only six weeks, of British Prime Minister Liz Truss. Who might replace her?
Across the world are tiny countries, but they lack any sort of international recognition and are either jokes writ large or the results of political disputes.
Did you know Alan Greenspan, Fed chair from 1987-2006, didn't dream of becoming an economist? Learn what brought him to that path, plus other "maestro" facts.
July 1969 was a month that put a permanent stain on the career of politician Edward "Ted" Kennedy thanks to his Chappaquiddick crash. Here's what happened.
Numerous women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against former president Donald Trump. Journalist E. Jean Carroll is among them.
This is the story of a group of libertarians that picked up and moved to a small town in New Hampshire in an attempt to establish a largely unregulated society.
Donald Trump asked for a special master to oversee the investigation into his potential mishandling of classified documents. Here's what a special master is.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR, died in August 2022. In 2014, Gorbachev sounded the alarm about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
President Ronald Reagan is remembered for his many economic policies. When he died in 2004, here is who inherited the former president's personal wealth.
On Monday, FBI agents visited former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago in a surprise raid, with outlets reporting it's in connection to missing documents.
When a congressperson dies in office, the act of replacing them is more complicated than you might think. Here's how hard it is to fill a vacated House seat.
The death penalty has always been a controversial policy in the U.S., partly due to its racial bias. These are the death penalty's disturbing racial statistics.