William Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie, ordered the agencies ...

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On that iconic day ten years ago, June 16, 2015, the golden escalator moment wasn’t just campaign theater, it was an economic ...

Click here. This is the season of President Donald Trump, the Republican Party, conservatism and the MAGA movement. The Democratic Party is in dire straits. They sit at 21% approval in some polls.

Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from the embers of the anti-slavery movement and the ashes of the Whigs.

In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge, and ...

In 1860, on the cusp of the Civil War, the Republican National Convention in Chicago not only took a chance on a one-term congressman named Abraham Lincoln, but introduced the nation to one of the ...

Most — 22 — were in the century between 1860 and 1960, when the city held its last Republican Convention and nominated Richard M. Nixon for the first time.

From 1860 to 1968, the city hosted 24 Democratic and Republican party conventions, far more than any other city. The total included 14 Republican conventions and 10 Democratic conventions.

Lincoln Home National Historic Site's superintendent said "there was an amazing set of events that occurred" on May 17-18, 1860 at the Republican Convention that propelled Abraham Lincoln from ...