Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

One of Long Island’s most significant presidential landmarks is Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, the ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

Pardons will always be a president’s attempt to have the last word. Amid the usual public outcry, it’s rare that it works, ...

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is a stockpile of crude owned by the US government. It provides a back-up supply of crude oil if the commercial oil supply is disrupted.

Nine children of presidents have gotten married at the White House: Maria Hester Monroe, John Adams II, Elizabeth Tyler, ...

President Donald Trump redecorated the Oval Office with many of the same artifacts from his first White House term.

Sen. Chris Coons suggested that there might be common ground with Congress and the attorney general to institutionalize ...

The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show ...

President-elect Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States on Monday in an inauguration ceremony ...

Among the constitutional powers preserved solely for the president, Article II bestows the power “… to grant Reprieves and ...

During his final hours in office, US President Joe Biden issued a number of pre-emptive pardons to prevent what he called ...