“The first man put at the helm will be a good one,” Benjamin Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention in June 1787, referring to George Washington. “No body knows what sort may come afterward.

In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the ...

Eastern Iowa held its first regional competition for the National Civics Bee in Cedar Rapids, where middle school students competed for cash prizes and a chance at a $100,000 education ...

First on Fox: A federal judge has ordered federal immigration authorities to release an illegal immigrant gang member with multiple unlawful entries into the United States and whose criminal history ...