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 ...

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

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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