For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

President Reagan in a staff briefing with Paul Nitze, Donald Regan, George Shultz, Ken Adelman, John Poindexter, Richard Perle (hand in pocket) and Max Kampelman in Hofdi House during the Reykjavik Summit in Iceland. CTBTO Photostream / flickr.

Dr. King's dream for bipartisanship and collaboration is as urgent as ever in the new Trump era, writes John Hope Bryant

Ever since the second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day — July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — the American presidency has thrown up a goodly number of calendrical coincidences.

Trump says we're going to Mars. He may be making it harder to get there. President Donald Trump says we’re going to Mars, but don’t start packing your bags just yet. There are a lot of reasons to doubt that his plans will get us to the Red Planet, and he may even put us further behind schedule.

JD Vance and his family have officially moved into the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory — and they are promising to "take good care of it" over the next four years.

Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States and it was noticed online he didn't have his hand on the Bible during his oath.

Self-described dirty trickster Roger J. Stone Jr emerged on the American political scene during the 1972 re-election campaign of President Richard Nixon – whose face is famously tattooed on his back.

Joe Biden, Andrew Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt stand out as James Garfield, William Harrison granted no clemencies - Anadolu Ajansı

John M. Bridgeland, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Alan Khazei, co-founder of the education nonprofit City Year, co-chair More Perfect, working to advance national service. As the United States approaches its 250th birthday in 2026, it faces a host of civic challenges in search of a solution:

Understated but imposing and not easily intimidated, Ms. Wiles may well be Mr. Trump’s best hope of having an effective presidency. In trying to manage Mr. Trump’s second White House, she would do well to consider the model of her predecessor in the role, Jeff Zients, Joe Biden’s second chief of staff.

Even in death, former President Jimmy Carter added to his legacy of public service. His example fortified us for the challenge of standing up for climate action in the face of Trump’s swift moves to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, again.