Sixteen percent of poll respondents agree the U.S. should pressure Denmark into selling Greenland to the U.S. Twenty-nine percent said the U.S. should take control of the Panama Canal from Panama and 21% said they agreed with the statement that the U.S. has a right to expand its territory into the Western Hemisphere.

Donald Trump lied, fabricated, and dissembled throughout his 30-minute “Liberation Day” inaugural address on Monday, a churlish and vainglorious oration well-suited to the aptitudes and values of a reality TV host and former condo salesman.

“President Jimmy Carter loved our country,” Harris wrote in her post. “He lived his faith, served the people, and left the world better than he found it.” The potential snub of Trump drew immediate backlash on social media.

Donald Trump returns to Washington, and the people he’s bringing with him don’t offer much assurance that, this time, there will be people around to tell him “no.”

Some thought Trump might pivot to a message of unity and reconciliation on the occasion of his victory. That did not happen.

Jan. 20, 2017: Then-incoming President Donald Trump talks with his outgoing predecessor, Barack Obama, on Trump’s inauguration day on Washington. Four years later, Trump would boycott the inauguration of his own successor, Joe Biden.

Both Democrats and Republicans will be gathering Monday in Washington, D.C. for the every-four-years ritual of the presidential inauguration at one of the most deeply divisive times in American

Of all the executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office, the one that reverberated the most across Washington was his move to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.

Donald J. Trump made history on Jan. 20 when he became the first convicted felon to take the presidential oath of office. Speaking from the Capitol in Washington—the same building that was infamously attacked by a howling mob of his supporters on Jan.

One of the most important lessons about Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory is that, in foresight, it was predictable long before election day.

Military service has not done much if anything for Democrats—Clinton won the nomination against two primary opponents, Bob Kerrey and Doug Wilder, with heroic war records. And then he won the presidency against George H.W. Bush, who enlisted at 18 and survived two close calls in World War II.

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a practice that Vice President Kamala Harris will resume on Jan. 20 after an eight-year hiatus.