January kicks off a year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In ...

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WASHINGTON – DNA testing all but confirmed Thomas Jefferson slept with his slave Sally Hemings. Now it’s rewriting another lurid chapter in presidential history, this one from the Roaring ’20s.

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