The outgoing president’s abandonment of pledges to govern as a unifying, pragmatic moderate dismantled the public’s trust, to the point where a shameless political grifter of no fixed ideology seemed the better bet.

On his way out of office, Joe Biden issued a “preemptive” clemency for his siblings and their spouses; for a raft of public officials, including former medical adviser Anthony Fauci and former ...

Former President Joe Biden granted blanket pardons to five family members in the last hour of his presidency, the final acts of clemency that also included sweeping pardons for members of Congress who investigated Trump’s role in the assault on the Capitol four years ago.

"We are moving forward regardless of what this administration is or is not doing, because we have to," a manager of the group America Is All In told Newsweek.

President Joe Biden declared the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment as “the law of the land” on Friday, using one of the final days of his presidency to burnish his record on women’s rights.

After outgoing US President Joe Biden recently warned Americans of the threat oligarchy poses for the country, a Fortune report found that the world's richest consolidated wealth and became $1.5 trillion richer in his term.

One of President Joe Biden’s signature promises was to ease the student-loan burden on millions of Americans. He’ll leave office with the debt pile slightly bigger than when he arrived.

President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders whose sentences were longer than they’d receive under current standards, the White House said in a ...

That was halted by former president Joe Biden in January 2024 while his administration studied the climate, economic and national security implications of increasing US exports of the fuel.

President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to “immediately pause” the spending of money from the Inflation Reduction Act, former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law that provided hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to clean energy and other climate initiatives.

Pete Buttigieg and State Senator Mallory McMorrow are weighing whether to mount a campaign for Michigan’s Senate seat after Senator Gary Peters announced he wouldn’t run for another term.

President Donald Trump signed an executive action he said directed federal agencies to undo diversity, equity and inclusion practices at the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration that he has blamed as responsible for a deadly midair collision between a passenger jet and military helicopter at an airport near Washington.