The Nielsen Company says an estimated 24.6 million people watched coverage of President Donald Trump's second inauguration.

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals.

A rare frigid storm is charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow, closing highways and grounding nearly all flights.

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, is set to be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president.

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

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed, but felt they had no choice.

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.

It’s called the Voice of America.

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.

Eight years ago, Donald Trump delivered an inaugural address that set aside the typical optimism and promises of unity with a dark portrait of national life.

The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather.

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and economic disparity.

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

The Oscar nominations are being pushed back almost a week from their original date amid the ongoing California wildfires.

If President Joe Biden is looking for ideas for retirement, he need look no further than past presidents.

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

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the world stage.

Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter's decades-long friendship will be on display one last time as Biden eulogizes Carter during his state funeral at Washington National Cathedral.

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.

Jimmy Carter's state funeral has moved to Washington after observances in his native Georgia.

Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio is urging President-elect Donald Trump to pardon him over the Jan. 6 insurrection as Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of the Jan. 6 cases.

Jimmy Carter considered himself such an environmentalist that he made green his signature campaign color.

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter are set to take place in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will feature an interstate choreography of grief, ceremony and logistics that is characteristic of state funerals.

The 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.

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

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

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

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100, after roughly 22 months in hospice care.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died.

Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government, or federal agencies will shutter.

Among the roughly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted or who were pardoned by President Joe Biden are a nonprofit leader who supports at-risk youth, a social worker who fosters animals and a postdoctoral researcher One woman who received a pardon said she wanted people with drug addiction to know there is always hope.

The first guest invited to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 1956 wasn’t a company executive, a politician or a celebrity.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time and be named Time magazine's Person of the Year.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has announced that the U.S. will provide nearly $1 billion more in longer-term weapons support to Ukraine.

Susie Wiles, President-elect Donald Trump's pick as White House chief of staff, has decades of political experience but has largely shunned the spotlight.

Vice President Kamala Harris won New York's presidential contest on Tuesday, picking up the state's 28 electoral votes.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are appealing to middle-class workers in very different ways.

A man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 has been found guilty of murder.

Vice President Kamala Harris will skip this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York.

Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are blaming comments made by Democrats that he is a threat to democracy for the unprecedented attacks on him, the latest coming over the weekend.

It’s debate prep time for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

“Deadpool & Wolverine" ruled the box office on a weekend of quiet openings and low theater attendance as the summer movie season came to an anticlimactic close.

As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others who have tried the same.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says the challenge of deterring America's adversaries should be “front and center” for the next president.

The gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is believed to have done a Google search one week before the shooting of “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”.

Republican officials, strategists and activists who packed into their national convention this week are exuding a confidence not seen in decades.

Scrutiny of the U.S. Secret Service continues to grow after former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Former President Donald Trump is calling for unity and resilience after an attempt on his life added fresh uncertainty to a tumultuous presidential campaign.

Authorities want to know how a shooter was able to get on top of a roof so close to where former President Donald Trump was speaking and open fire.

Before Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, there have been multiple instances of political violence targeting U.S. presidents, former presidents and major party presidential candidates.

Former President Donald Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan answered the age question with a clever joke that reset his campaign from a stumbling debate performance to a 49-state landslide and a second term.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for resuming production of intermediate-range missiles that were banned under a now-scrapped treaty with the United States.

It's debate prep time for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

Looking to go where supporters of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump live in harmony.

President Joe Biden has spoken from Pointe du Hoc, marking his second trip to the Normandy coast during his visit to France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds has died.

Ex-President Donald Trump has campaigned in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation, holding a rally in the South Bronx.

Donald Trump is running against Joe Biden, but Trump keeps bringing up another Democrat, Jimmy Carter.

Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress.

Both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are posing the time-tested question “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”.

Democratic voters in suburban Minneapolis seem far less interested in sending President Joe Biden a message of dissatisfaction with him than they are in keeping Republican Donald Trump from returning to the White House.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that U.S. Republican senators should be “ashamed” for leaving about $60 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine in limbo in a recent vote.

Heavily Democratic California might appear an unlikely national battleground.

With momentum from this month’s presidential contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, Joe Biden and Donald Trump appear poised to give the nation a sequel to the 2020 election — but even strong victories this week for both men highlighted weak spots for each of them.

Republican presidential candidates will gather in Alabama for the fourth GOP debate of the 2024 presidential campaign.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been increasingly isolated on foreign policy among his GOP colleagues, a growing number of whom have distanced themselves as a matter of course from U.S. involvement abroad -- and particularly on Ukraine.

NATO allies have frozen their participation in a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s withdrawal from the pact.

Republican colleagues call Steve Scalise a fighter, but the nominee for House speaker may be in for a brawl.

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Saturday at his presidential library and museum in Atlanta ahead of his 99th birthday on Sunday.

Several of Donald Trump’s rivals stepped up their attacks against him in the second Republican presidential debate.

The field for the second Republican presidential debate will be smaller than the first.

Former federal appeals court judge and New York Senator James Buckley has died at age 100.

In red communities across America, lawmakers are pushing to restrict drag performances or LGBTQ+ rights.

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House.

Reagan administration Interior Secretary James Watt has died at age 85.

The last time a hurricane struck the United States during the month of June, Ronald Reagan was president and the world was still several years removed from the fall of the Berlin Wall. Needless to say, it’s been a while.

The FBI has disclosed a potential threat to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 trip to the U.S. West Coast.

Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi newspaperman and award-winning television journalist who kept Americans informed about the Iran hostage crisis as State Department spokesman, has died at age 88.

No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception.

It's been 150 years since a bridge in Dixon, Illinois, collapsed.

The last time Secret Service agents escorted a U.S. leader to face criminal charges, they kept their mission a secret -- even from their own bosses.

While he’s far from the only U.S. president to be dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first ever indicted on criminal charges.

Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme.

The Carter Center says former President Jimmy Carter has entered home hospice care.

A longtime North Carolina Republican congressman who served briefly in the Senate in the mid-1980s has died.

Dramas over the mishandling of classified documents at a high level of the U.S. government aren't all new.

The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department probes into the discovery of classified documents at the home and former office of President Joe Biden has focused renewed attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

The oldest president in U.S. history is hitting a milestone birthday.

Democratic Rep. Katie Porter has survived a bitter reelection fight in Southern California.

Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary.

Iran is marking the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran as its theocracy faces nationwide protests after the death of a 22-year-old woman earlier arrested by the country’s morality police.

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, have doled out Halloween candy to trick-or-treaters dressed up as everything from Spider-Man to a flamingo to a monk to a zombie founding father.

Law enforcement officials say former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was hospitalized after wrecking his SUV while swerving to avoid a dog on a rural road.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed 25 lawsuits against President Joe Biden's administration in the past 20 months.

Presidents come and go, but White House grounds superintendent Dale Haney has been a constant through the past 10 presidencies.

It’s been eight years since Harry Reid led the U.S. Senate, but if his Democratic Party can manage to keep its tenuous control of the chamber this year, he may be the man responsible.