Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

The top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., is a conservative activist who promoted Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories ...

AJ columnist Rogelio Medina on the way to Narita, Japan onboard Japan Airlines. THANKS to the nice and courteous service from ...

Donald J. Trump made history on Jan. 20 when he became the first convicted felon to take the presidential oath of office. Speaking from the Capitol in Washington—the same building that was infamously ...

Mr Trump is more transactional than presidents before him, which increases the risk of cronyism and self-dealing. But America ...

Donald Trump became the 47th American president on Monday, but the oath of office itself has been administered 73 times ...

The US president’s power to pardon is both one of the most absolute and misunderstood provisions of the Constitution. Rooted ...

For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to watch the inauguration of the incoming president, with some noteworthy exceptions.

Some Democratic state officials are mounting a resistance movement, looking for ways to shield their states from potential federal policies restricting abortion and transgender rights, among other ...