For years, internet users have shared a quote about how to measure the success of welfare programs, attributing the words to Ronald Reagan, the former U.S. president and California governor.

US President Joe Biden has often been photographed enjoying a vanilla ice cream cone, former president Ronald Reagan liked jelly beans and John F Kennedy loved clam chowder. As president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration approaches,

It gives us no pleasure to report that after his first year in office, Charleston Mayor William Cogswell is looking less like a noble “Prince William” and more like a secretive “Backroom Billy.”

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Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

President-elect Donald Trump selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at the inauguration. Here's a list of some singers at previous presidential inaugurations.

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the Constitution.

Trump cozied up to House Republicans last June, as he attempted to unify the party during his campaign. Thomas, who founded a tour company, Private Tours of Washington, in 2013, discovered during Trump’s first term that tourists thirsted for a MAGA-themed excursion much in the way the President guzzles Diet Cokes.

Trump and Nixon are far from the only presidents to rake in money for inaugurations. Twelve years after Nixon's $4 million ceremony, Ronald Reagan set a record with a $20 million swearing-in that featured more elaborate celebrations, according to ethics watchdog Public Citizen.

Behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings by the Reagan campaign and Team Trump clinched deals in the eleventh hour, showing Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden in a poor light

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

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.