President Catherine Connolly will spend much of her time, like her predecessors, delivering and crafting speeches that stay within the bound­aries of her constitutional remit while occasionally ...

The 1975 “dismissal” of Australian Labor PM Gough Whitlam is often seen as a constitutional crisis initiated by an old ...

Voters in Brunswick Hills Township selected two newcomers to the township board of trustees Nov. 4, and in Brunswick, ...

In August 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned after the Supreme Court decided that tapes of presidential conversations were not protected by executive privilege. The tapes thus needed to be ...

As I contemplate next year’s Maine Democratic Party primary for Senate, involving the two leading candidates — Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner — the highly quotable phrase attributed to legendary ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...

Cynthia Nixon, Rosie O'Donnell, and Mark Ruffalo celebrated Zohran Mamdani’s victory, sharing posts praising the newly ...

Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral win sparks Hollywood reactions. Celebrities like Cynthia Nixon celebrate while others criticize ...

On Nov. 5, 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the presidential election; she was later ...

Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory Tuesday has put the Democrats in the unenviable position of having to decide what their ...