Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also are among the world’s richest men.

Cecile Richards, a national leader for women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.

President Donald Trump’s second term is beginning with efforts to deliver on his promise to crack down on immigration and restore “energy dominance.”.

President Joe Biden is spending his final full day in office in South Carolina, urging Americans to “keep the faith in a better day to come” and reflecting on the influence of both the civil rights movement and the state itself in his political trajectory.

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.

It's unclear who'll take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office.

Thousands of people from around the United States rallied in the nation’s capital for women’s reproductive rights and other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming Trump administration.

Donald Trump spent Saturday evening in Washington celebrating with family, supporters and political allies ahead of his second inauguration.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says Donald Trump is a president-elect who for all of his aggressive talk is afraid to let America compete with the rest of the world, responding instead with tariffs and curtailing immigration.

The federal judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case denounced efforts to rewrite the history of the U.S. Capitol attack as she handed down what she acknowledged may be one of the final punishments for the Jan. 6 riot before the Republican president-elect’s promised pardons.

The decision to move Monday's swearing-in means thousands of people with plans to visit Washington won’t be able to see President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration in person.

Donald Trump is back and so is the Women’s March, which returns to Washington on Saturday under a new name: The People’s March.

The Democratic Party's left wing is responding to President Joe Biden's strong words about the possibility of an American oligarchy with a combination of appreciation, bemusement and frustration.

When Democrat John Fetterman got elected to the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, many backers had hoped he’d challenge the status quo.

Kamala Harris has hinted that she wants to stay involved in politics and foreign affairs after leaving the vice president's office, but she hasn't disclosed any plans so far.

The super-rich have long played a role in U.S. politics but have an unusually prominent spot in incoming President Donald Trump's new administration.

Donald Trump has given voters a hefty list of promises, and many of them come due right away.

California, Illinois and New York are shrinking.

President Joe Biden offered up a few surprises in his farewell address.

President Joe Biden has used his farewell address to the nation to warn of an “oligarchy” of the ultra-wealthy taking root in the country and of a “tech-industrial complex” that is infringing on Americans’ rights and the future of democracy.

President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are both claiming credit for Israel and Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire deal in Gaza after the White House brought Trump’s Middle East envoy into negotiations that have dragged on for months.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she does not want to pick a fight with President-elect Donald Trump, but she won't back down from one either.

Joe Biden staked his presidency on the idea that he was the best person to keep Donald Trump out of power.

The last time Joe Biden packed up and left office, he took with him tens of thousands of papers from his decades in public service.

Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W.

In January 1981, Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan at the Republican's inauguration.

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010.

An increasing number of Democrats are questioning whether their party’s commitment to diverse candidates, especially women, may lead to more political struggles in the Trump era.

The Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months.

Americans have a dimmer view of Joe Biden’s presidency as he prepares to leave office than they did at the end of Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman will become the chamber's first Democrat to meet with President-elect Donald Trump since the election, and plans to travel to Trump’s private resort in Florida.

Five current and former U.S. presidents have come together for Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.

Former first lady Michelle Obama didn't attend the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter.

The late New York Sen_ Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”.

The Service Employees International Union is rejoining the AFL-CIO after 20 years.

Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy of slavery.

President Joe Biden is casting doubt on his fitness to serve another four years in a new interview days before he leaves office after one term.

A former FBI informant who fabricated a story about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepting bribes has been sentenced to six years in prison.

President-elect Donald Trump paid his respects on Wednesday as President Jimmy Carter lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda as part of state funeral rites.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to close out her term with an around-the-world trip.

Living to 100 let Jimmy Carter fulfill his wish to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris against Republican Donald Trump.

Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, where they can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans.

Virginia Democrats have preserved their Statehouse majority in special elections.

Some lawmakers emotionally recalled the violence.

Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s election under the tightest national security level possible.

Vice President Kamala Harris says Jan. 6, 2025, was a “good day” for democracy as she oversaw the peaceful certification of Donald Trump's victory.

Congress has certified Donald Trump as the 2024 presidential election winner without challenge.

President Joe Biden is decrying efforts to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the election in 2020.

President Joe Biden is calling on incoming Democratic lawmakers to always be mindful of other people's perspectives — even when they may be wrong.

Four years ago, then-President Donald Trump rallied his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol and urged his vice president to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory.

The congressional joint session to count electoral votes is expected to be much less eventful than the certification four years ago.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to “ensure the Senate stays the Senate.”.

Virginia voters will begin the new year filling state Senate and House vacancies on Tuesday in a trio of special elections that could determine control of the narrowly divided chambers.

Some transgender people worry President Joe Biden did not do enough to shield them from the torrent of Trump policies to come.

A new poll finds that Republican voters are more confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections now that Donald Trump has won.

The FBI is releasing new information about a suspect who planted pipe bombs four years ago outside the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees near the Capitol.

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California has always stood apart.

President Joe Biden has awarded the second-highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia.

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny announced he will release a new album in early January.

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news.

Former President Bill Clinton will be home for Christmas after being discharged from a Washington hospital where he was treated for the flu.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper leaves his job next week after eight years.

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.

With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House has approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

Justice Kyra Harris Bolden is the first Black woman to be elected to the Michigan Supreme Court.

A handful of prominent Democratic governors are quickly adjusting their approach to President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January.

Veteran Fox News business anchor Neil Cavuto is leaving the network after his show on Thursday.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says Democrats should think less about partisan politics and more about meeting people’s needs.

Wrapping up their report on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded it’s former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney who should be prosecuted for her work probing the riot.

President-elect Donald Trump is accusing the Des Moines Register newspaper and its pollster of “brazen election interference” for publishing a poll the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris was leading by three percentage points in the midwestern state.

A new poll finds that Democrats are feeling more pessimistic about the U.S. economy after Donald Trump's victory.

Vice President Kamala Harris is urging anyone disappointed over her loss in last month's election to “stay in the fight” as Donald Trump prepares to take office.

Jill Biden says she has closed the book on teaching at Northern Virginia Community College.

When Donald Trump takes office as president for a second time, many journalists anticipate a hostile climate toward them and their work.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums in last month’s election loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

Donald Trump got something this year that no other person designated Time magazine's Person of the Year had ever received.

Sen. Mitt Romney has given his final remarks after seeing the Republican Party for which he was once the standard bearer drastically transform under Donald Trump.

The White House has announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia.

President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognized by Time magazine as its person of the year.

Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he'd do no such thing.

Remember what you searched for in 2024.

President Joe Biden says he was “stupid” not to put his own name on pandemic relief checks in 2021, like Donald Trump had done in 2020.

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy.

President Joe Biden is threatening to veto legislation that would expand the federal judiciary.

Michigan Democrats are charting their path forward after significant setbacks in the 2024 election.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is taking on a lead role for Democratic efforts to win governorships in the 2026 midterm elections.

The Pentagon is temporarily pausing flights again of its fleet of V-22 Ospreys after weakened metal components were found in a part after another near crash.

Depending on who you ask, the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country or were cause for celebration.

It was 1906 when U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the first national monument — Devils Tower in Wyoming.

Bill and Hillary Clinton say voters disappointed with the presidential election need to remain involved in public service and find ways to give back.

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed Donald Trump to Paris with a full dose of presidential pomp.

Four Democrats are running for Democratic National Committee chair, looking to take on the task of reinvigorating a party demoralized by a second loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden faces a stark choice as he contemplates broad preemptive pardons to protect aides and allies from potential retribution by Donald Trump.

Vice President-elect JD Vance is surveying hurricane damage in western North Carolina in one of his first public appearances since the November election.

President Joe Biden is weighing whether to issue sweeping pardons for officials and allies who the White House fears could be unjustly targeted by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison has delivered a steadfast defense of his party’s commitment to racial equity.

President Joe Biden has presided over his final Christmas tree lighting at the White House.