By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year. Today in ...

April 9th has witnessed numerous significant events throughout history, spanning a variety of categories including politics, ...

Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Robert E. Lee abandons his position the night of April ... That they slip away undetected gives Lee a day’s jump, but one that evaporates the day he sends his men foraging for food in an area ...

Combined with earlier buyouts and retirements, the Health and Human Services Department will be left with 62,000 employees, ...

Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, got the Legislature to make Martin Luther King Day a state holiday in 1984 by tying it to the existing Robert E. Lee holiday. They shouldn’t have to do this, any more ...

The release of as many as 80,000 pages of classified files comes after decades of smaller releases of redacted files.

Federal workers are already bracing for major new cuts. Mr. Trump signed an executive order aimed at dismantling the ...

In the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 Confederate troops ...