Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon,

PHILADELPHIA — Progressive activists in Congress have put mounting pressure on President Joe Biden to direct the archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment — which would become the first explicit mention of women in the U.

Government by executive order was not the way things were supposed to work. The framers’ idea was that Congress makes the laws and the executive branch, with the president at its head, enforces them.

Biden said Republican-led states "really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Both outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump used that power in self-interested, shortsighted ways.

Three days before leaving office, President Joe Biden announced that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution should be considered in effect.

The president’s announcement on Friday was one of many sweeping executive moves he’s making in his final days in office.

President Joe Biden’s declaration the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land” likely only sets up more debates for Congress and the courts

Legal scholars say President Joe Biden might be right ... legal experts say, is what Biden didn’t do: He didn’t order the archivist of the United States to formally publish the amendment.

Biden’s preemptive pardon to cover up for potential misconduct involving himself is a totally different ballgame, and puts him within the company of President Donald Trump at the end of his first

He has worked at the U.S. Department of State, on the National Security Council, and as a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator John McCain. Today, U.S. President Donald Trump will sweep back into power promising a new American approach to the world.

President Biden is leaving office after a single term that many Americans regard as unsuccessful. But it could be viewed more favorably over time.