On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental ... their rights and liberty against British rule. The first American Soldiers were not professional military men ...

The bill is also aimed at establishing a public database on foreign ownership of U.S. farmland through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and requires the Secretary of Agriculture to partner ...

The Canadian and Mexican architects of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement say Donald Trump’s trade war has crossed a line that ...

In that year, the Second Continental Congress awarded Benjamin Franklin a $1,000 salary to serve as its first postmaster. Franklin had spent the last two decades overseeing the colonial mail ...

The administration that is being formed is even less well-organized than the First Continental Congress. And it is drowning in data. If one of the political parties does not mature quickly and ...

A day into Donald Trump's North American trade war, the U.S. president remained adamant that tariffs would benefit America ...

International Women’s Day traces its lineage back to the very founding of America, and tied it to a letter sent by First Lady Abigail Smith Adams in 1776, which urged the Continental Congress to ...

President Donald Trump gave his first joint address to Congress since taking office in January.  In addition to lawmakers ...

The Post Office was created during the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775, when Benjamin Franklin became the first postmaster general. In 1872, Congress named it an executive ...

declaring support for the Continental Congress, denouncing British tyranny, and committed to boycotting British goods. It was the first time Americans openly declared they were willing to die for ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night will stand at the front of the U.S. House chamber to address a joint session of Congress, the first of his ... A Look Inside The Continental Mark II ...