Iran has announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz for live fire military drills.

Today is Presidents Day. It's one of the 11 federal holidays recognized.

Government offices, the stock market and schools are closed Monday in observance of Presidents Day, but most big retailers are open.

President Donald Trump says a change in power in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen” as the U.S. administration weighs whether to take military action against Tehran.

The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Iran marks the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution as leaders face pressure from the U.S. and anger at home.

Iranian security official Ali Larijani is in Oman, the country currently mediating talks between Tehran and Washington over Iran's nuclear program.

The U.S. Navy’s top uniformed officer has introduced his vision for the Navy's future, focusing on using smaller and newer assets instead of consistently turning to huge aircraft carriers.

Iranian security forces have launched a campaign to arrest figures within the country's reformist movement.

Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday about the U.S. talks with Iran.

President Donald Trump has taken an unusual step of turning to military leaders for high-level diplomacy.

Iran and the United States have held indirect talks in Oman.

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck will perform a joint concert at Carnegie Hall in the 2026-27 season.

The White House says talks between special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian officials are still planned after a Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.

Turkey is trying to bring U.S. and Iranian officials to the negotiating table to ease tensions and avoid U.S. military action against Iran.

President Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.

U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region.

The Kennedy Center's head of artistic programming has stepped down, two weeks after being named to the position.

Democrats and White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security.

Iran has reached out to Middle Eastern countries over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike.

President Donald Trump is warning Iraqi officials that the U.S. would no longer support the country if its former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, returns to power.

Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has canceled the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln at the Kennedy Center.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying warships have arrived in the Middle East.

Two Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East are signaling their readiness to launch new attacks.

Authorities in Iran have unveiled a new mural in a central Tehran square with a direct warning to the United States to not attempt a military strike on the country.

The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned that his forces are "more ready than ever" as U.S. warships move toward the Middle East.

The Pentagon is sending the largest force of American warships and aircraft to the Middle East in decades.

An auction house in New York is marking the United States' 250th birthday by selling items that trace the nation’s history through some of its most iconic documents.

Russian officials and media are reacting to President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland with a mix of glee and caution.

Iran has reported its first government-issued death toll from the recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed.

Iran has warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the U.S. president called for an end to Khamenei’s near 40-year reign.

Hackers have disrupted Iranian state TV to air footage supporting the exiled crown prince.

Presidents often find solace in golfing, and Joint Base Andrews in Maryland is a favorite spot because it's close to the White House and has built-in security.

Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production.

When former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral is held at the Washington National Cathedral, he will join a bipartisan but exclusive list of figures memorialized there, in a church that tells the story of America on hallowed ground.

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an extraordinary relationship the two had despite the demands the new president had undertaken.

Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares and former Democratic Del.

Jeffrey Goldberg has bold goals: “We want The Atlantic to be the greatest writer's collective on the planet,” the magazine's editor-in-chief said.

In the tragic roll call of violence in American public life, Charlie Kirk’s name joins the long list.

President Donald Trump has built most of his domestic travel around attending sporting events.

Only four U.S. Presidents have been assassinated. Half were killed by Michiganders.

Donald Trump has shifted his admiration from Andrew Jackson to William McKinley.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington explores the complexity of America's past.

President Donald Trump's name and image will never be forgotten should congressional Republicans have a say in the matter.

Donald Trump once decried the idea of taking vacations as president.

More than half a dozen Army bases’ names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders.

President Donald Trump has shared his unique takes on past presidents and their portraits while discussing his White House redecorating efforts.

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.

Morning 4 is a quick roundup of stories we think you should know about to start your day.

Thursday is Juneteenth—also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day.

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the following year, 1866.

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans.

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Popes -- they’re just like us.

Donald Trump's administration says it's the most transparent in history.

Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.

The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.

Three Broadway shows — “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” — each earned a leading 10 Tony Award nominations Thursday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes at the end of President Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting that the U.S. has brought home 47 wrongfully detained Americans so far in Trump’s second term.

There was no president.

As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department has issued an appeal for its employees to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias, including actions taken for opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice, that may have occurred during former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is beefing up the Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ordering two aircraft carriers to be there next month as the U.S. increases strikes on Yemen-based Houthi rebels.

When President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his words are bound to be far different from when he addressed lawmakers at the beginning of his first term.

When 11-year-old Ceiba Phillips returned to his Southern California neighborhood a month after the devastating Eaton fire, he couldn’t believe his eyes.

Let presidents inspired you on this Presidents' Day

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

Not every outlet popular with conservative readers is cheerleading for President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has begun erasing Joe Biden’s legacy after taking office as the nation’s 47th president.

Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will feature an interstate choreography of grief, ceremony and logistics that is characteristic of state funerals.

Today marks the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day proclamation

Only four U.S. Presidents have been assassinated. Half were killed by Michiganders.

As the world has vastly changed, so has protection for presidents since the days when the public could come to the White House to meet Abraham Lincoln.

It’s hard to believe several years ago most Americans had never heard of its other Independence Day, Juneteenth, which recognizes the end of slavery in the United States.

The Library of Congress is unveiling an eclectic new exhibit drawing on the institution’s vast historical archives and designed to make the Library a more popular and accessible destination for visitors and tourists.

The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving in, dueling had to be regulated and settlers were increasingly encroaching on tribal lands.

A new series on Apple TV+, premiering Friday, tells the lesser-known aspects of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the pursuit of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

To honor the U.S. presidents of the past, here are 12 really odd facts about some of the presidents of this great country.

The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, during the Civil War.

Have you heard the story of the Michigan resident who killed a sitting United States president? It’s not the one you’re thinking of, either.

Only four U.S. Presidents have been assassinated. Half were killed by Michiganders.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained an original 1858 photograph of the future president with an interesting backstory.

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500.

It all started with one week in 1926, when one organization chose the second week of February to promote the achievements by Black Americans and other people of African descent.

Liz Cheney is openly considering a presidential run.

“All men are created equal.”.

Juneteenth became a federal holiday last year, but many African Americans have celebrated it for years. It marks the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free.

The 102nd United States Colored Infantry Regiment returned to Camp Ward on Saturday.

This coming Sunday, the nation stops to commemorate Juneteenth.

Juneteenth commemorates the announcement of emancipation of enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865.This happened more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863.

The man the physically caught Abraham Lincoln’s assassin founded Nashville, Michigan.

Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and other artifacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Serenade Foods is recalling approximately 59,251 pounds of frozen, raw, breaded and pre-browned stuffed chicken products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Monday.

Given all of the attention around statues, let’s take a look at statues around Detroit -- and the stories behind the people and faces we etch into history.