In 1860, Abraham Lincoln defied the odds by winning the Republican nomination and the presidency after a lifetime of struggles that included clinical depression, personal bankruptcy, losing reelection ...

Congressional attempts at cooperation and reconciliation ... When reviewing the four-month period from the 1860 election to Lincoln’s inauguration, one can’t help but conclude that the ...

That’s largely because of Democrats’ advantage in fundraising for House races—where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has outraised its GOP counterpart by $78.8 million—while ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry. In 1860, one year before the Civil War, the market ...

Opponents of Ohio Issue 1 say voters should stick to the status quo for drawing congressional and state legislative lines. “It’s hard to argue that the status quo is good," said Jim Slagle ...

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) and former Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX), his challenger in the 2024 race to represent Texas’s 34th Congressional District, participated in a debate hosted by CBS4 ...

Following the resolution approved by the World Triathlon Congress in 2021, World Triathlon introduces the Elections Rules and Procedures World Triathlon in the interest of World Triathlon, the Members ...

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A Committee of Conference composed of delegations from the Breckinridge, Bell and Mozart Conventions of the Seventh Congressional District, met last evening at No. 209 West Twenty-seventh-street ...

Congressional leaders in the House and Senate are privately negotiating a deal to address increasing concerns about artificial intelligence, and they’re hoping to move a bill in the lame-duck ...

EWTN Mass will be in St. Peter’s Square, with 14 to be canonized: the 11 Martyrs of Damascus in 1860 — Franciscan Father Manuel Ruiz López, his seven Franciscan companions and the Massabki ...

Editor’s note: Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. Stay informed with OPB on the presidential race, key congressional battles and other local contests and ballot measures in Oregon and Southwest ...