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The past three presidential inaugurations have set a dubious record: Each saw the oldest man in history sworn into America’s ...

Only former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter – who has declared – would be remotely comparable, but Porter has already clarified that ...

Donald Trump is forming the youngest US administration in the last quarter of a century. The average age of the key members of his new team is 51.8 years, Izvestia calculated. This figure not only ...

For those not blinded by partisan politics, there is an obvious difference between Biden’s preemptive pardons and these Trump ...

The Trump administration's push for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars is ...

Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is just depressing.

We know that U.S. vice presidents are often the objects of humorous jabs for their secondary role in the executive branch or their public mishaps.

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JD Vance is 40 years old. That makes him the youngest vice president since Richard Nixon served in the 1950s, the Enquirer reported. Nixon was 39 when Dwight D. Eisenhower chose him as a running ...

Then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in a meeting with US President Richard Nixon, Vice President-Designate Congressman Gerald Ford and Chief of Staff Alexander Haig Jr in the Oval Office of the ...