William J. Burns, a veteran diplomat who in his career helped lead secret negotiations with Iran and served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia, received a warm reception Wednesday from the Senate ...

Ken Burns was in his studio working on the final edits of a forthcoming documentary film series on the American Revolution when he learned on Tuesday that the historian William E. Leuchtenburg had ...

Burns admitted that it is not unreasonable for Americans to feel disillusioned with the current state of American foreign policy, suggesting that the dysfunction of today’s Washington “is not ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected William J. Burns, a career State Department official who led the U.S. delegation in secret talks with Iran, to run the C.I.A. In ...

Washington — CIA Director William Burns met with the Taliban's de facto leader in Kabul on Monday, a source familiar with the situation said, in what marks the group's highest-level encounter ...

For Burns, the erosion of American power and influence long predates Trump. He regrets the loss of the extraordinary American cohesion that, at the end of the Cold War, secured the place of a ...

Ken Burns was in his studio working on the final edits of a forthcoming documentary film series on the American Revolution when he learned UNC-Chapel Hill historian William E. Leuchtenburg had ...