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 ...

The Law Library of Congress and Government Publishing Office announced Wednesday that they've uploaded the 10,000th volume of ...

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 ...

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

Tessa Evanosky worked at a library in southeast Ohio when COVID prompted stay-at-home orders. She's one of two dozen people who were interviewed for a project documenting the experiences of child care ...

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 ...

On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...

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 ...