President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, via email at 6:56 p.m. ET on May 8, 2025. Critics are condemning his decision, which came after Hayden's appearance earlier this week ...

Author and journalist George Pendle loves the bombast of the world’s largest library. He takes us behind the scenes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The main reading room is seen at the Library of Congress on June 13, 2025, in Washington. Kevin Carter/Getty Images Carla Hayden, ...

The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself a little. It hasn’t happened over any of the numerous brazen abuses of the ...

(WHTM) – The U.S. Congress needed some books. While they met in New York City and Philadelphia in the 1780s and 1790s, they had access to some excellent local libraries for research and reference. But ...

The National Screening Room is a massive online repository that puts cinema’s most influential films at the tips of your fingers. And to watch them, all you have to do is click “play.” In Tuesday’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden arrives on the red carpet for the 2024 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular ...

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 ...

An unidentified "adversary" hacked into the email system for the Library of Congress, accessing information sent via email between January and September 2024, the Library said. The library shared news ...

A tiny piece of straw-colored twine attached the right stem of Abraham Lincoln’s eyeglasses to the bow — and wrenched Carla Hayden’s heart. The spectacles were in Lincoln’s pockets when he was fatally ...

The Library of Congress is moving to strengthen the reliability and security of its enterprise IT environment under a potential $150 million multiple-award contract covering operations and maintenance ...

At the Library of Congress, a team of scientists is working hard to make objects age as fast as possible. That may seem counter to the usual goals of a library, but the purpose is ultimately ...