Before moving to Washington, D.C., the Obamas spent their early years in Chicago, where Barack served as a state senator after marrying Michelle on Oct. 3, 1992. The pair welcomed their first child, ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon and Chicago institution. He was also a star athlete in high school and championed human rights on the global stage.

A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con man,” ...

The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...

We may not know much about the elusive former first daughter, Sasha Obama, but the few things we do know shed some light on ...