The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Opinion: At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and ...

Here are seven distinctive aspects about the swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump They include him being the first ...

Despite social media attention, the Constitution protects freedom of religion. So putting a hand on a Bible, or even using ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated ...

The most famous example is Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, who never fully acknowledged his role in Watergate. Then there was George H.W. Bush’s decision to pardon Casper Weinberger ...

Self-described dirty trickster Roger J. Stone Jr emerged on the American political scene during the 1972 re-election campaign ...

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be ...

But then he added, “Nobody’s done that ever.” That’s false; Republican presidential candidates Richard Nixon (1972), Ronald ...

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

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

The president's record-shattering clemency actions help ameliorate the damage caused by the draconian drug policies he ...