Aug. 18 (UPI) --"We never had another shot fired," recalled former Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad, reflecting on the 1998 peace accord with Peru that ended nearly two centuries of conflict over a ...

The internal GOP sparring over a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open should cast doubt on the viability of pursuing a two-bill approach to enacting President-elect Donald Trump’s policy ...

Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, which focused on the relationship between Jefferson and John ...

Pope Francis has passed away, but his legacy as a pope of reconciliation and peace will continue to be remembered and celebrated. The pontiff died on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88, due to ...

House GOP leaders had a brief scare last week when they had to go back and fix several pages in their mammoth budget reconciliation bill that passed before Memorial Day. That “privilege scrub” process ...

Linda J. Bilmes served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of Commerce from 1997-1998 and as CFO and Assistant Secretary for Management, Budget and Administration from 1999-2001. The ...