One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

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

Mr. Trump’s threat to revisit the terms of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties (1978), which eventually ceded control of the Panama ...

The recent flurry of presidential pardons from both former President Biden and President Trump has put a renewed focus on ...

Preemptive pardons, like the ones Joe Biden issued in his final hours as president, have been used by Donald Trump, Jimmy ...

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

Over the years, the First Ladies of the United States have used the opportunity of the inauguration to show off their fashion sense.

Joe Biden has pardoned more than 3,000 people during his final days in office. Other presidents have used the power to ...

From Eleanor Roosevelt to Jill Biden, first ladies have often made statements through what they wore on Inauguration Day and ...

May 1975 - Cambodia seizes the American ship Mayaguez. Ford sends in the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The ship is retaken and the crew of 39 is rescued, although 41 American service members are killed ...

Presidents have pardon power -- that's in the Constitution, columnist Ron Faucheux notes. But there are some steps to take ...

Ahead of Donald Trump's second inauguration, take a look back at the transition of presidential power throughout U.S. history ...