On Feb. 24, 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of 126-47 following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later ...

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 24, the 55th day of 2026. There are 310 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of ...

On Feb. 24, 2014, scientists announced that a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, 4.4 billion years old, was confirmed to be the oldest discovered fragment of Earth's crust.

LOS ANGELES — House Peters Jr., a TV actor who became the original Mr. Clean in Proctor & Gamble's commercials for household cleaners, died Wednesday. He was 92. Peters died of pneumonia at the Motion ...

President Donald Trump called Rev. Jesse Jackson “a force of nature” and so he was. Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84, was the last great orator of the civil rights ...