The “audacity of hope” presidency has given way to the fierce lethargy of semi-retirement.

WASHINGTON—Call it the 911 presidency. Despite insisting that the United States is rebounding from calamity under his watch, President Donald Trump is harnessing emergency powers unlike any of his ...

The president is not just abusing the immunity that the Supreme Court granted him. He might be seeking to expand it.

Post-Biden presidency investigations are testing the legal limits of executive power as President Donald Trump looks into whether key orders were signed without the former president’s consent.

Bridges have changed a lot over the centuries, from being little more than fallen trees and conveniently arranged stepping ...

A breakdown of the insider knowledge surrounding Joe Biden’s decline—and how the Democratic Party’s culture of silence, ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the ...

A small, government office with some 275 employees has found itself caught in the political crossfire as Congress debates ...

George Clooney wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times in 2024 and called for Joe Biden to be replaced as the Democratic presidential nominee ...

Trump simplifies complex political debates with punchy slogans but the strategy can also work against him when a critical ...

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