Political comedies are the perfect way to deal with topical issues under the guise of absurdist comedy, and movies like Duck ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Has-moe-nean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event that ...

Cronkite was 92. "Walter was always more than just an anchor. He was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day; a voice of certainty in an un ...

Dick Cheney, whose campaign for a military response to the 9/11 terror attacks cleared the path for an unpopular war in Iraq and established his reputation as one of the most powerful and polarizing ...

Today in History for Dec. 2: In 1552, St. Francis Xavier, the founder of the Jesuits, died while on a missionary journey to China. In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French. In 1805, the ...

NewsNation is counting on data to draw viewers in on Election Night. The Nexstar-backed news outlet, which continues to play upstart to more established cable competitors like Fox News MSNBC and CNN, ...

On November 17th, 1973, utter this phrase. In the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors gathered at Walt ...

Not all of CNN‘s Election Night coverage will take place on its familiar cable network. The Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet will make a play for younger, digital audiences with a “live cast” ...

📌 Election Day is finally here. Let’s make sure it doesn’t suck. When all the ballots are counted, if we’re lucky, we’ll have a new mayor, a new city council president, and a progressive caucus in ...

New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event in Brooklyn (Credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — The crowd erupted inside the ...