Here are seven distinctive aspects about the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump They include him being the first ...

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Presidents have pardon power -- that's in the Constitution, columnist Ron Faucheux notes. But there are some steps to take ...

Joe Biden has pardoned more than 3,000 people during his final days in office. Other presidents have used the power to ...

Trump will be speaking as a president who faces not only the weight of governing a sprawling nation with ties and burdens ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It’s a ...

President-elect Donald Trump has selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at his second ...

With his presidency nearly over, Joe Biden is considering preemptive pardons for people Donald Trump has criticized or ...

Despite social media attention, the Constitution protects freedom of religion. So putting a hand on a Bible, or even using ...

At the dawn of a new Trump era, the same old Trump lies. The day before his second inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump held a campaign-style rally at an arena in Washington, where he repeated s ...