The United States Navy has a tradition of naming many of its popular ships after U.S. presidents. Here are five that stand ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama would not be able to serve a third term because they served ...

Preemptive pardons, like the ones Joe Biden issued in his final hours as president, have been used by Donald Trump, Jimmy ...

The Washington National Cathedral hosts the state funeral and has been the site of funerals for presidents and other prominent figures Jimmy Carter is the first ... president of the United States ...

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat tradition? Here are some tidbits you might not know about Inauguration Day.

Related CENTCOM conducts first attack ... at Bremerton in Washington state. The USS George H.W. Bush, CVN 77 and named after George W. Bush's father who served one term as president from 1989 ...

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to President-elect ...

Will Trump take the opportunity this time, in his second inaugural speech, to talk of unity? Or will it be more 'American carnage'?

WASHINGTON — A Republican Tennessee Congressman proposed an amendment to the United States ... 1892 was the first. The president has previously hinted at his willingness to serve more than ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.

The presidency of the United States stands ... the world beyond. Since George Washington took office as the first president in 1789, the U.S. has seen 46 individuals serve as its head of state ...