With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

Prior to the tariffs, the US had a massive trade deficit with Japan. In 1986, the deficit was about $55bn. The deficit ...

On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

Russia celebrates the Diplomat’s Day to pay tribute once again to the previous generations of foreign service professionals. It seems that today, in the year of celebration of the 80thAnniversary of ...

NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the most executive ... implement New Deal programs and handle World War II. Truman signed the second most executive orders — 906 total.

Donald Trump walks to the East Room to sign the Laken Riley Act at the ... It was ratified in 1951 in response to Franklin ...

In 1783, U.S. and British representatives signed a preliminary "Cessation ... was formally proclaimed King Edward VIII. In 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the oath of office for ...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. On his first day in the White House, he is expected to begin signing several executive orders as part of his ...

Another order he signed was the ending of birthright ... I would say I voted for the president, no matter who it was.” Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, who died in 2020, served as a doorman under ...