Melania Trump was all smiles as she welcomed her family’s final Christmas tree to the White House. The maskless first lady appeared in the festive spirit despite being caught on tape earlier this year complaining “who gives a f*** about Christmas stuff.”

Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold more than 1.7 million copies in North America in its first week, setting a new record.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state, another setback for President Donald Trump in his futile effort to...

Just a month before he won the U.S. presidential election in 2016, Donald Trump vowed to spend his time in office systematically slashing government rules. "I would say 70 percent of regulations can go," Trump told a crowd of town hall attendees in New Hampshire. "It's just stopping businesses from growing."

The low-profile head of the General Services Administration had become a stand-in for the country’s divisions.

Mnuchin’s move and Shelton’s near-confirmation suggest a future of greater risks each time party control changes.

Donald Trump is using the dying embers of his US presidency to hastily push through a procession of environmental protection rollbacks that critics claim will cement his legacy as an unusually destructive force against the natural world. Trump has yet to acknowledge his election loss to president-elect Joe Biden but his administration has been busily finishing off a cavalcade of regulatory moves to lock in more oil and gas drilling, loosened protections for wildlife and lax air pollution standards before the Democrat enters the White House on 20 January.

Donald Trump is the kind of populist who hates the people: specifically, the clear majority of the people who voted him out of office. So he has set about one last gambit – what Dick Cheney liked to call “the last throes” – to steal the election he lost by gumming up the electoral college.

Honolulu officials have granted an exception to the state’s beach protections, clearing the way for a controversial multimillion dollar renovation of a century-old seawall at a property owned by the chair of the Obama Foundation.

The president convinced many voters that his response to the pandemic was not a disaster. The psychology of medical fraud is simple, timeless, and tragic.

President Barack Obama is doing the late-night rounds. Hours after it was revealed that the 44th President of the United States would be appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, it emerged that he is also set to sit down with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.

As news outlets confirm their earlier projections of a Biden electoral college win, President Donald Trump has announced further intentions to contest the results in a bid to make himself too pathetic for a future Justice Department to indict.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other GOP officials offered support for the president’s attempts to undermine faith in the outcome, despite the lack of any evidence of widespread fraud.

A study published in American Politics Research suggests that the electoral success of U.S. House candidates is partly based on perceptions of their physical attractiveness. Psychology research has long demonstrated the existence of a “beauty premium”, whereby physically attractive people receive benefits in various areas of life. One of these areas is politics, where attractiveness has been linked to electoral outcomes.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is all but certain to never run for president again. So what happens to the massive army that formed around him across two presidential campaigns to render him the most formidable force in online campaigning and fundraising on the left?

Some Trump advisers think Fox News made a mistake with an early call of a Biden win in Arizona.

The Trump administration abruptly dumped the leaders of three agencies that oversee the nuclear weapons stockpile, electricity and natural gas regulation, and overseas aid during the past two days, drawing a rebuke from a prominent Republican senator for one of the decisions.

On Tuesday, several states passed ballot measures to relax drug laws.

Ever since the beginnings of the smartphone revolution, consumers have seen flagship phone prices steadily increase year after year. Today, it's no longer all that shocking to see price tags that start well north of $1,000 for each new top-of-the-line device that comes to market. And while some people chalk that up to the price of staying on the cutting edge – a great many more people now view their smartphones as significant investments.

Trump's campaign blitzed U.S. courts with new lawsuits this week. Judges have so far rejected most of them.