Avi Selk is an assistant breaking news editor in the Features department. He previously worked as a reporter for more than a decade, at The Post and the Dallas Morning News, and still sometimes ...

USF seeks a president who can protect academic freedom while working with government agencies, as the search committee gathers community input.

Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet has been elected president of the National Basketball Players Association, the union for current professional basketball players in the NBA, the NBPA announced ...

On July 11, 1977, President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

🎆🎇 Houston’s signature Fourth of July celebration, Freedom Over Texas, is set to return Thursday with six hours of live entertainment, family-friendly festivities, and a fireworks finale ...

Most Americans are all familiar with the reason we celebrate July Fourth as Independence Day. But do you remember these other events that happened on the nation's birthday?

Olympic silver medallist Fred Evans has revealed how his desire to be a part of Great Britain's first World Series of Boxing franchise convinced him to resist the lure of the professional ranks in ...

JAMESTOWN — A sergeant with the Jamestown Police Department received the North Dakota Chiefs of Police Association’s Medal of Honor for his actions in an officer-involved shooting in December in ...

The man whose name is replacing Harvey Milk’s on a U.S. Navy ship is a World War II hero and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Who was Oscar Peterson? Oscar Verner Peterson — apparently ...

Global, Naval Warfare Australian destroyer conducts South China Sea Freedom of Navigation activity Following the port visit to Singapore, the ship will link up with the UK-led carrier strike group ...

Is Trump really so different from the presidents before him? The expansion of presidential power has undoubtedly been one of the central developments of the United States’ 249 years of nationhood.