Scott MacFarlane is CBS News' Justice correspondent. He has covered Washington for two decades, earning 20 Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards. His reporting has resulted directly in the passage of five ...

Concerts from the Library of Congress will launch an exciting, yearlong America 250 celebration this January, presenting a ...

The Library of Congress is acquiring what’s arguably a theater gold mine: the manuscripts and papers of Neil Simon, the most commercially successful American playwright of the 20th century. “Neil ...

The Library of Congress has revealed that six awards totaling nearly $400,000 have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Higher Education ...

WASHINGTON -- When U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., was growing up, it seemed like everybody he knew had some connection to the military. The senator's father was a waist gunner on B-17 bombers during ...

Carla Hayden, librarian of Congress tweets at musician Lizzo regarding the Library of Congress's flute collection. On September 23, 2022, Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, and the first ...

The preservation of the millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and manuscripts in its collections is of the utmost importance to all Americans. and people around the globe. the ...

The Library of Congress expects that artificial intelligence can help people search through its troves of digital information to glean new insights about the U.S.’s history. To that end, America’s ...

The Library of Congress will build on its promise to be the “people’s library” by launching a four-year program to expand and diversify its collection and work with communities of color and other ...

The nation's capital is full of towering statues and monuments honoring American presidents and legends. But inside the Library of Congress, it's possible to find more obscure and real-life mementos ...