Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) denied a request to have the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson lie in honor in the Capitol, a source ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Civil Rights Movement icon and two-time former presidential candidate, has died.

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Former president Jimmy Carter has 11 grandchildren. One grandson, Jason, has had a long career of his own and even followed in his grandfather's footsteps.

Dr. William H. Foege, an international public health giant credited as a visionary in the earliest days of Bill and Melinda Gates’ global health programs, and who developed the vaccination strategy ...

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has denied a request for the late Rev.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to lie in honor at the United States ...

Famed civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson has died. Jackson, 84, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and later ...

The US president remembered Jackson, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s, as a good man with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

Charles C. Stevenson Jr., an actor best known for his role as Smitty the bartender on “Will and Grace,” has died at age 95.

TRIBUTES have been paid to 'the voice of snooker' John Virgo who has died at the age of 79.

An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and ...