In 1948, President Harry S. Truman ordered desegregation of the U.S. military. In 1956, Egypt created a crisis by ...

The White House says on the 72nd Korean War armistice the U.S. will "steadfastly" safeguard interests on the Korean Peninsula ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...

Truman issued Executive Order 9981 to desegregate the military in 1948. He appointed a committee of diverse Americans to report on progress in 1950, the Freedom to Serve Report.

WASHINGTON — The USS Harry S. Truman and its strike group launched the “largest airstrike in the history of the world” from an aircraft carrier during recent operations near Somalia, the ...

On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, the United States conducted the first-ever detonation of a nuclear weapon.

Kansas City’s airport terminal could get a new name. Mayor Quinton Lucas met Wednesday with representatives from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute about honoring the former president at KCI.

Every United States Navy warship should expect a hero’s welcome when returning to port, but for the crew of USS Harry S Truman, they truly earned it.

Ironically, congressional sponsors of the McCarran-Walter Act were at odds with the White House when the law was enacted in 1952. They overrode a veto by President Harry S. Truman, who thought the law ...

A sailor assigned to the USS Harry S. Truman returned from a nearly eight-month deployment to find that his dog had been given away — thankfully, they were reunited after a public search effort.