Biden Administration

Next month, Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences would be commuted.

The Democratic-led Senate confirmed the 235th federal judge nominated by President Joe Biden, marking a milestone for the outgoing occupant of the White House by giving him one more than former President Donald Trump secured.

President Biden announced this morning that his administration has cancelled the student debt for about 55,000 borrowers.

The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would forgive another $4.28 billion in student loan debt for 54,900 borrowers who work in public service.

President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet with Pope Francis and top Italian officials for what is expected to be the final international trip of his presidency.

Biden signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to serve in a presidential Cabinet

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday described President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to jail members of the House Jan. 6 Committee as “an outrageous statement” and said President Joe Biden should consider pre-emptive pardons for committee members.

Roughly 1,540 people had their sentences commuted or were pardoned by President Joe Biden on Thursday in what was the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

As President Joe Biden makes a final push to confirm judicial nominees before his term in office ends, he is on track to have appointed more federal judges of color than any president before him.  On Monday, the Senate confirmed Biden’s judicial nominee for the Northern District of Georgia, Tiffany Johnson, making her the 40th Black woman he has...

The decision by President Joe Biden to commute the sentence of former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell sparked intense reaction Thursday.

Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell, who stole more than $50 million from the community, had the remainder of her sentence commuted Thursday.

The White House said that Thursday was the highest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day.

Officials are monitoring the outbreak, but say that a vaccine is not yet warranted because the virus isn’t spreading among people or causing severe illness.

The U.S. plans to support Syria and its neighbors after rebels toppled Assad’s dictatorship.

It was 1906 when U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the first national monument — Devils Tower in Wyoming.

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who pleaded guilty to misusing campaign funds while he was in Congress, is seeking a pardon from President Joe Biden, citing the president’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. Jackson Jr. was sentenced to 30 months in prison for spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses in 2013, while his then-wife Sandi Jackson…

Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has formally requested a pardon from President Joe Biden following his pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

During his first term, President-elect Donald Trump declined to defend a similar Obama-era Labor Department fiduciary rule in court.

With just a little more than a month and half left in office, President Joe Biden is under pressure to forgive more student debt.

The first lady welcomed National Guard families to the White House on Monday to be among the first members of the public to see the decorations.