During his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump promised to run the federal government as though it were a business.

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...

President Trump boasted of his accomplishments in his first 43 days in office, comparing the start of his presidency to ...

Our nation’s first president was also a farmer and he believed in being a good steward in a different era, Dave Bergmeier writes.

In 1787, General George Washington presided ... decried it as an invitation to tyranny. Washington, who maintained a studied silence from the president's chair, was the solution.

The United States began celebrating its first president when he was still a general. Nearly 300 years since George Washington’s birth, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of the presidency.

The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

(AP) Like the other founding fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the first leader of a new republic, not a king. And yet the US will once ...