(WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead America's premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.

Robert Lighthizer, the former U.S. Trade Representative, lost his bid to rejoin the White House, but he still believes the ...

One of the most vexing political questions throughout American history has been the role and importance of the vice president ...

Jan. 6 pardons and immediate action on the border show Trump knows what he’s doing in Washington now. But can he keep up the ...

Update 9:27 a.m. ET, Jan. 20: Today is not only Inauguration Day but it is also a federal holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

JD Vance, the 40-year-old senator from Ohio, who took oath as the 50th Vice President of the United States, made history as the first to sport a beard since 1909. The last vice president with facial ...

From historic Bibles to the leading role of the country's chief justice, Inauguration Day has been filled with traditions.

On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison delivered what is the longest inaugural address in United States history, both in ...

The Carters built the one-story house before his first state Senate campaign in 1962 and ... Only two presidents, John F. Kennedy and William Howard Taft, are interred at Arlington.