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

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

The pardon power of the president is close to absolute. And most presidents, until Biden and Trump, have been careful not to abuse the privilege.

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He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a “dramatically disjointed personality ... capable of barbaric cruelty ... more ...

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 ...

Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.

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

The backstory: L.A. Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has in recent months made moves in the Opinion section, and on his ...

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

Donald Trump is the first president to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs, teeing up ...