He was a Democrat who served in the Tennessee legislature, the US Senate and Congress, as Governor of Tennessee, and Vice ...

In addition to interceding if someone had “unfairly been punished by the justice system,” scholar Stewart Ulrich emphasizes this motivation of early presidents to use pardons to help “keep political ...

After President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in the 1940s, Americans voted to put term limits in the Constitution Only one United States president has ever been elected to serve ...

In a speech this week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance, America’s second Catholic vice president, laid out a distinctly ...

President Trump asked the United Nations why it exists, at his speech to the 80th annual General Assembly on Tuesday. He said during negotiations to end wars in Africa and the Middle East, "the United ...

Political figures from across the aisle gathered Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics. The funeral, ...

President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...

Section 1. Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. Heinous assassinations and other acts of political violence in the United States have dramatically increased in recent years. Even in ...