If you see lots of Stars and Stripes flying today, there's a good reason. It's the birthday of the U.S. flag, proposed by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. ...more

June 14, 2009

James Whitmore, a leading character actor whose craggy face became a familiar one to film, television and stage audiences for decades and who won wide acclaim for a pair of one-man performances, as the humorist Will Rogers and a vinegary Harry S. Truman, died Friday at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 87. ...more

February 8, 2009

Joseph Burrucker, 82, was an air traffic controller with the Tuskegee Airmen in the 1940s. For the past few weeks, he has been working out at a gym near his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, trying to get in shape so that at Barack Obama's inauguration, he will be able to walk, albeit with a cane, to his seat. ...more

January 19, 2009

Get ready for the in-law in chief. President-elect Barack Obama's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, is moving into the White House at least temporarily to join Michelle Obama and the two children, transition officials said Friday. ...more

January 9, 2009

Sixty years ago last month, I watched my parents pull the curtains of their voting booths in a Michigan town hall basement to vote for the man who lost the 1948 presidential election. He was Thomas E. Dewey, a Republican widely expected, even by the Democrats, to vanquish wounded incumbent Harry S. Truman. ...more

December 17, 2008

Mamie Ferlita Suszynski, who helped organize banquets in Ybor City and once sang for Vice President Harry S. Truman, died from pancreatic cancer Saturday. She was 86. ...more

October 27, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama on Monday rejected the comments from a military adviser who diminished Sen. John McCain's service as a naval aviator in Vietnam when he declared, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president." ...more

July 1, 2008

Meet George W. Bush, time traveler. He's in Poland in 1939 as Nazi tanks advance on Warsaw, then flying with his Navy-pilot father to battle imperial Japan. He's alongside Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, William McKinley on his deathbed and Franklin D. Roosevelt on D-Day. He lingers with Harry S. Truman, another U.S. president deeply unpopular in his time. ...more

June 13, 2008

No, it's not Harry Potter's birthday. It's the birthday of another great wizard. A political wizard, the late Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of United States. ...more

May 8, 2008

Margaret Truman Daniel, 83, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman, died Tuesday at a Chicago assisted living facility after a brief illness. ...more

January 30, 2008