Biden Administration

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday described President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to jail members of the House Jan. 6 Committee as “an outrageous statement” and said President Joe Biden should consider pre-emptive pardons for committee members.

Roughly 1,540 people had their sentences commuted or were pardoned by President Joe Biden on Thursday in what was the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

As President Joe Biden makes a final push to confirm judicial nominees before his term in office ends, he is on track to have appointed more federal judges of color than any president before him.  On Monday, the Senate confirmed Biden’s judicial nominee for the Northern District of Georgia, Tiffany Johnson, making her the 40th Black woman he has...

The White House said that Thursday was the highest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day.

Officials are monitoring the outbreak, but say that a vaccine is not yet warranted because the virus isn’t spreading among people or causing severe illness.

The U.S. plans to support Syria and its neighbors after rebels toppled Assad’s dictatorship.

It was 1906 when U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the first national monument — Devils Tower in Wyoming.

During his first term, President-elect Donald Trump declined to defend a similar Obama-era Labor Department fiduciary rule in court.

With just a little more than a month and half left in office, President Joe Biden is under pressure to forgive more student debt.

There was a mixed reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter from politicians and political observers in Massachusetts, with Sen. Ed Markey saying the younger Biden was only prosecuted because of his father’s position, while Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jake Auchincloss had different reactions....

Plus, NBC10 Boston political analyst Sue O’Connell offers context on other recent controversial presidential pardons...

The first lady welcomed National Guard families to the White House on Monday to be among the first members of the public to see the decorations.

On Sunday night, President Biden issued a “full and unconditional pardon” for Hunter Biden’s federal gun and tax evasion charges.

The 2024 White House holiday decorations include 83 Christmas trees and more than 28,000 ornaments.

President Joe Biden spoke from the White House Rose Garden Tuesday afternoon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

President Joe Biden participated in the 77th turkey pardoning at the White House, sparing two turkeys from Minnesota.

A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.

A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.

The Biden Administration is making contingency plans for a possible surge in migrants ahead of the second Donald Trump presidency, according to two U.S. officials.

President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation. 

People with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.