Woodrow Wilson significantly increased the public debt in order to loan money to the Allies in WWI and send soldiers to war.

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

Say “Buna ziua” (“Good afternoon” or just plain “Hello”) to Sublocotenent (second lieutenant) Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the first ...

The US president invokes a 1798 law to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador.

(THE CONVERSATION) As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify ...

“After Germany surrendered, Mr. Sichel became the O.S.S. station chief in postwar Berlin,” wrote Asimov. “He was 23 and known ...

During the Great Depression, the value of Cook Islands exports suddenly collapsed—by 1935 it was just one third of the 1925 figure—and the New Zealand government slashed its funding for the territory ...

President Donald Trump said the US is "at war" while responding to a question about his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) rolled out a list of 26 vulnerable House Democrats it plans to target ...

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from removing any migrants under the Alien Enemies Act late Saturday—but the ...