The checks and balances the nation's founders established to guard against a monarchical president with a standing army are ...

A $2 billion project to restore the 94-year-old George Washington Bridge reached a major milestone on Thursday as the last of 592 vertical steel suspension ropes connecting the main cables to the ...

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping archaeologists excavate the location. By Jennifer ...

Most of the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers are stationed in the United States, but the USS George Washington lives on the other side of the world.

The bronze statue, which belongs to the National Park Service, was moved from the Washington Monument to the White House this ...

A Montgomery County estate that briefly served as former President George Washington's headquarters during the Revolutionary War has been listed for sale for $3.3 million after undergoing extensive ...

The Fort Washington residence dating back to 1717 was used as the Continental Army general's base of operation.

The search for Airman Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch was suspended on July 30, two days after he went missing in the Timor Sea The U.S. Navy has identified a sailor who went missing during a training ...

Four years of digging for artifacts in the Ligonier area have shed new light on a little-known “friendly fire” incident in George Washington’s military career and have put what turned out to be a ...

Even before George Washington became America’s first president, his experiences as a young colonel in western Pennsylvania shaped the course of national history. Among his multiple close calls in ...

It’s associated with a major myth about the first president. Most people associate George Washington with cherry trees. Supposedly, a young George Washington confessed to his dad that he had damaged a ...