Bundled-up residents and visitors gathered Saturday to celebrate Benjamin Franklin’s 320th birthday and to welcome a new ...

Week three of Philadelphia's "52 Weeks of Firsts" is underway as the city highlights the nation's first volunteer fire ...

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...

Saturday marks the 320th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, and "CBS Saturday Morning" breaks down the Founding Father ...

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants ...

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, 320 years ago. In recent days, I discovered Ken Burns’s two episodes on Benjamin Franklin that aired in April 2022 on PBS.

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus t History Center will host a Jan. 24 screening.

Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Northern Cheyenne tribal chief who became a prominent American politician, has died. He was 92. His daughter Shanan Campbell confirmed to CBS News that her ...

Bombshell shows how the government tried to minimize the effects of radiation and prevent independent reporting through censorship and co-opting of the press.

Friday on the News Hour, President Trump threatens to intervene in Iran if the regime cracks down on protests sparked by economic turmoil. Amid canceled performances and plummeting ticket sales at the ...