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NPR's Pien Huang takes a journey to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to hear from youth voices about how they're telling the story of America on the 4th of July.

As a travel writer with two decades of exploring the nooks and crannies of the United States, I’ve seen firsthand ...

Throughout history, the US Capitol has been destroyed by fire, reconstructed, expanded and restored. The US Capitol Police (USCP) are charged with protecting Congress’ members, employees, visitors and ...

During the Civil War, the large brick house on G Street SE served as an auxiliary hospital for wounded soldiers, where Walt ...

A new presidential portrait has been installed at Colorado state Capitol in Denver after President Donald Trump claimed the previous piece "distorted" him.

The site of a long-shuttered Williamsburg diner will be cleared and transformed into a 6-story mixed-use building, records show. Williamsburg-based developer Yoel Schwimmer is planning to erect a ...

US Capitol Police arrested protesters demonstrating against Trump's "big, beautiful bill," with demonstrators opposing cuts to SNAP and Medicaid in the Republican tax legislation.

Along with lawmakers calling for security changes, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher says Minnesota needs to add metal detectors to four of the buildings in the Capitol complex.

Washington — A Maryland man has been charged with trying to bring a "ghost gun" into a House office building last week, CBS News has learned, the latest arrest involving firearms on Capitol Hill ...

Colorado’s Democratic lawmakers said Thursday they would temporarily replace an $11,000 portrait of President Trump in the state Capitol with a painting donated by the White House after he ...

A self-approved portrait of President Trump now hangs in the Colorado Capitol – replacing an earlier version he ripped as “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst.” ...