June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to tap Chad Meredith, a former state solicitor general in Kentucky, for a ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to tap Chad Meredith, a former state solicitor general in ...

The U.S. Postal Service will be closed on June 19, and there will be no mail deliveries. It is one of 11 holidays the USPS observes. But while the post office is closed, UPS and FedEx pickup and ...

On Thursday, the United States government is pausing its ongoing transformation into the sharp instrument of Donald Trump ’s ...

NYC has many ways to celebrate Juneteenth this year. Here's everything you need to know about the federal holiday.

Veteran D.C. political journalist Alex Thompson joined Jim Lokay on "The Final 5" to discuss his new book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again ...

Juneteenth was officially established as a federal holiday under former President Joe Biden in 2021. Here's what's closed on June 19.

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following the arrival of Union troops. The Civil War had ended on ...

On June 9, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of a key panel of medical and science experts overseeing the use of vaccines for the Centers ...