Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and the White House is prepping up for its yearly tradition of pardoning a turkey. Every year the president pardons one or two turkeys before the ...

JD Vance and his family have officially moved into the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory — and they are promising to "take good care of it" over the next four years.

The once poor kid who escaped from a Cuban immigrant housing project, managed to study at a university, became a respected ...

Maddow opened with a tale of former Vice President Andrew Johnson’s extreme inebriation on the day Abraham Lincoln was sworn in for a second ... from billionaires followed by Trump’s blanket pardoning ...

"The increased pardon activity has elevated public attention on pardon power. This article explores the history, scope, and limitations of the pardon power, and provides answers to some practical ...

(Carter excluded deserters.) Abraham Lincoln pardoned former Confederate soldiers, though he attached conditions to the pardons. “All these pardons, however, were for specific acts, rather than ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

ANKARA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family's brutal five-decade rule.

On January 15th he made an official visit to Turkey, where he had lived for over a decade, as Syria’s new foreign minister. No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey ...

Biden was not the first president to issue a preemptive pardon — according to the White House Historical Association, Abraham Lincoln issued preemptive pardons for Confederates before the end of ...

magnanimity and unity that distinguished the historic addresses delivered by Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Instead, Trump took “the road less traveled,” to borrow from Robert Frost ...