Once an all-conference HBCU volleyball player, China Jude is now an executive for the NBA G League affiliate of the Detroit Pistons.

At one point, the settlement seemed poised “to become the city of destiny,” one historian wrote. But it didn’t last.

Washington state’s U.S. senators have cosponsored legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

A co-op of ethnic German Hutterite farmers, who arrived in the 19th century, own the Dakota Provisions plant. But migrants ...