
‘Just Move On': Republicans Grapple With Post-Trump Future
President Joe Biden’s inauguration represents a new high point for Democrats, who have assumed control of Congress and expelled Donald Trump from the White House.
President Joe Biden’s inauguration represents a new high point for Democrats, who have assumed control of Congress and expelled Donald Trump from the White House.
Just prior to the end of his White House tenure, President Donald Trump granted last-minute clemency to a lengthy list of individuals, including rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.
His presidency over, Donald Trump has bid farewell to Washington, but he’s also hinted at a comeback
President Donald Trump has shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from deportation from the U.S. The order signed Tuesday night was a final reward for Venezuelan exiles who have been among Trump’s most loyal supporters and who fear losing the same privileged access to the White House during the Biden administration
A federal appeals court has thrown out a rule that made one of the Trump administration’s most momentous climate rollbacks
On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has lashed out anew at China by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in western Xinjiang region constitute a “genocide.”
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday saying the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol was “fed lies” by the president and others in the deadly riot
President Donald Trump has pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a late flurry of clemency action benefiting nearly 150 people, including rap stars and former members of Congress.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he is ending COVID-19 travel restrictions for air travelers from Europe and Brazil, a move that the incoming administration quickly rejected, NBC News reports.
As he was preparing to leave the White House in January 1989, President Ronald Reagan wanted to write a note to his successor, George H
Donald Trump is the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice — this time for his role in inciting a deadly assault on the Capitol by his supporters — but he is still poised to leave office with a job approval rating that is fairly typical of his entire time in office, NBC News reports.
An Associated Press review of records finds that veterans of President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful campaign had key roles in the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol
At the moment President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office on Wednesday, the National Archives and Records Administration will take custody of Donald Trump’s presidential records
President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is likely to begin after Joe Biden’s inauguration next week
Federal safety officials are investigating people who took part in last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to decide whether they belong on the federal no-fly list
A plan to place the Arkansas man photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol on house arrest has been put on hold
Uncertainty over the pace of federal COVID-19 vaccine allotments is triggering anger and confusion in some states
The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in
A white military veteran shot and wounded a 15-year-old Black girl during a tense confrontation at a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Iowa last month
Vice President Mike Pence has called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to offer his congratulations
On Jan. 20, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States.
The FBI is tracking an “extensive amount of concerning online chatter,” including calls for armed protests leading up to next week’s presidential inauguration.
President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic’s prolonged economic fallout
President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial could begin at 1 p.m. on Inauguration Day
Stacks of empty boxes were delivered to the White House grounds Wednesday while the clock continues to tick down for the Trump administration, NBC News reports.
The Trump administration has slashed millions of acres of protected habitat for the imperiled northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington and northern California
Authorities say a man who was photographed wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the U.S. Capitol riot last week has been arrested in Virginia.
The unbreakable wall of Republican support that encouraged and enabled Donald Trump’s norm-shattering presidency has cracked.
The Google-owned company took down the account following similar actions by Facebook and Twitter.
U.S. Census Bureau statisticians are under significant pressure from Trump political appointees to figure out who in the U.S. is in the country illegally
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
The State Department said Pompeo’s trip was canceled so the secretary can help with the transition to Joe Biden’s administration next week.
The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades
With impeachment pressure mounting, the House on Tuesday was speeding ahead to try to oust President Donald Trump from office. Late in the evening, the House approved a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove Trump with a Cabinet vote.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told GOP colleagues Monday that Trump bears some responsibility for the Capitol riot and that he doesn’t rule out censure.
Congressional Democrats want Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Trump incapable of exercising the duties of his office, but if he does not, and the president does not resign, they say they will move to impeach him for an unprecedented second time. Here’s what you need to know.
The Trump administration has missed a deadline for giving Congress numbers used for dividing up congressional seats among the states, as the U.S. Census Bureau works toward fixing data irregularities found during the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census
A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades — a Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother in Missouri, cut the baby from her womb and passed off the newborn as her own.
The bill of impeachment details Trump’s pressure on state officials in Georgia to “find” him more votes and his White House rally ahead of the Capitol siege, in which he encouraged thousands of supporters to “fight like hell” and march to the building.
The House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday. The action, which could begin as soon as Monday, comes amid growing talk in Washington to try to force the president from office early in the aftermath of the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol last week.
The violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters
President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency facing a second impeachment and growing calls for his resignation after his supporters launched an assault on the nation’s Capitol in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
In a highly unusual move, American diplomats have drafted two cables condemning President Donald Trump’s incitement of the deadly assault on the Capitol and calling for administration officials to support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office
Republican members of Congress who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory, even after a mob broke into the Capitol, are being denounced by critics in their home districts
President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed in the final months of his presidency to have done more for Black Americans than anyone with the “possible exception” of Abraham Lincoln
Though stripped of his Twitter megaphone, President Donald Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach
President Donald Trump is expected to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday to highlight his administration’s work on the border wall, the White House said Saturday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that the State Department is voiding longstanding restrictions on how U.S. diplomats and others have contact with their counterparts in Taiwan
President Donald Trump is facing growing Democratic momentum to impeach him a second time
Dozens of people have already been arrested and prosecutors across the U.S. have vowed to bring to justice others who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, sending lawmakers into hiding as they began their work to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory
The Twitter account @realDonaldTrump, which grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of a president, has died
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s concern about constraining President Donald Trump’s ability to launch a nuclear attack in his final days in office highlights a longstanding question: should any president have the sole authority to start a nuclear war
Two days after thousands of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump sits at the most isolated moment of his presidency
A U.S. judge has blocked the Trump administration’s most sweeping set of asylum restrictions less than two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes office
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal while disclosing a list of high-tech weapons systems under development in response to what he called hostile American policy
Some governors and state lawmakers are reassessing security at state capitols across the country after the violence that occurred this week at the U.S. Capitol
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on a Democratic Caucus call Friday afternoon that she’s been assured there are safeguards in place between President Donald Trump and any military actions or a nuclear strike, a source told NBC News.
The top Democrats in Congress have urged the Cabinet to remove President Donald Trump and threatened to impeach him if they do not.
Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a chaotic protest aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power, forcing lawmakers to be rushed from the building and interrupting challenges to Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.
The U.S. has had tense relationships with the two authoritarian states, which some experts said are challenging American leadership on the global stage.
A day after he told his supporters “we love you,” President Donald Trump condemned them Thursday for violently swarming the U.S. Capitol in a statement that called for a “seamless transition of power,” NBC News reports.
Lawmakers from at least seven states attended or observed the massive demonstrations in Washington that turned into a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol
The violent breaching of the halls of power on Capitol Hill by insurrectionists represents one of the plainest displays of a racial double standard in modern history
For European Union nations, Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration as the next U.S. president cannot come fast enough
Lawmakers of both parties raised the prospect Thursday of ousting President Donald Trump from office, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that if he wasn’t removed, the House may move forward with a second impeachment.
Facebook will bar President Donald Trump from posting on its system at least until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden
Congress affirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election early Thursday morning after a long and tense day on Capitol Hill which was the scene of a riot the day prior.
Radical conservative activists and allies of President Donald Trump quickly began to spread disinformation about the Capitol riots Wednesday, claiming with no evidence that pro-Trump protesters photographed breaking into congressional chambers were anti-fascist activists
Congress has confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner, hours after violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol
Iraq’s judiciary says it has issued an arrest warrant for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year.
It was a real-time breaking and entering the likes of which the republic has never seen.
Congress affirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election early Thursday morning after a long and tense day on Capitol Hill.
A U.S. judge has refused to halt an oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that was pushed by the Trump administration in its final days.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay and WeChat Pay in an escalation of a trade war he has been waging through most of his term.
The Trump administration finalized changes to a century-old law protecting most American wild bird species, despite warnings that billions of birds could die as a result
Top national security agencies are confirming in a rare joint statement that Russia was likely responsible for a massive hack of U.S. government departments and corporations, rejecting President Donald Trump’s claim that China might be to blame
The Environmental Protection Agency has released one of its last major rollbacks under the Trump administration
The top federal prosecutor in Atlanta has left his position
A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by two Republican Wisconsin lawmakers, voting rights groups and others seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin and four other swing states