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The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States of America, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A divided federal appeals court Friday threw out a lawsuit by the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay against his former boss at the Library of Congress, who fired the ex-prosecutor for publicly criticizing the Obama administration over Guantanamo detainees.
Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis sued his then-boss, Daniel P. Mulhollan, in his individual capacity, and against the Library itself, or technically the Librarian of Congress James Billington, in his official capacity. A lower court judge rejected motions by Mulhollan and Billington to throw out the case; Mulhollan appealed that ruling, which was reversed by the appeals court Friday. The suit against Billington as the official head of the Library of Congress continues.Davis made his critique in op-ed articles in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post in 2009. Responding to the administration's decision to try some Guantanamo detainees in federal courts and others in the military commissions system, Davis a...
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Robert Caro receives the most interesting mail."I get letters, constantly, saying, 'I see your book's coming. I hope you're going to prove in this book that LBJ did ...
Marilyn Church didn't even have to ask Bernard Madoff, Martha Stewart, Woody Allen and John Gotti to sit for their portraits. She simply found a good seat in court a...
A plan by The Library of Congress will significantly expand the public’s access to the library’s $250 million musical and cinematic collection, the Los Angeles Times...
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Don't try to swipe a book from the Library of Congress -- library investigators might soon be getting their guns back. Investigators with the Library's Office of the...
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The Library of Congress inspector general will resume investigations into old criminal cases that were put aside after the office lost its ability to buy and carry f...
Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has ...
A billionaire history buff has stepped forward to donate the $7.5 million matching gift that's needed to start repairing cracks near the top of the Washington Monume...
Dolly Parton makes music history once again as her song "Coat of Many Colors" is added to The Library of Congress National Recording Registry. Each year 25 songs ar...
Country music salutes servicemen & women; Tim McGraw and Ronnie Dunn help wounded warriors; honors for Scotty McCreery & Lauren Alaina; a new gig for Hunter Hayes; and a big honor for Dolly Parton
WASHINGTON(AP) -- Officials with the Library of Congress have agreed to pay $250,000 to an employee who sued over alleged sexual harassment by the former top law lib...
A Washington businessman is loaning the first U.S. map printed in North America to the Library of Congress after buying it for $1.8 million.The library announced Mon...
A hawk that spent a week living in the dome of the Library of Congress has finally been captured.Ken Knowles of the Raptor Conservancy of Virginia says the Cooper's ...
Workers and visitors at the Library of Congress have been allowed back into its Madison Building after smoke prompted a brief evacuation.D.C. fire department spokesm...
WASHINGTON -- Documents from gay rights history are on display for the first time at the Library of Congress as part of an exhibit on the nation's constitutional his...
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