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But will they be smoother? Eight years after he oversaw a chaotic parade of job-seeking strangers marching to his Manhattan penthouse, President-elect Trump has turned the task of filling out [...]

On his last foreign trip as president, Biden will meet peers who are busy strategizing for another four years of tariffs and U.S. isolationism. President Biden's final foreign trip is [...]

PLUS:Matt Gaetz resigns House seat after AG nod; Biden, Trump put aside differences in WH meeting; and Johnson set to resume safer speakership. Senate Republicans elected Sen. John Thune of [...]

The vice president faced considerable political headwinds. Here are five more missteps that made it tougher for her to overcome them. This is the second of two parts on the [...]

The vice president faced considerable political headwinds. Here are five missteps that made it tougher for her to overcome them. Part One of Two. As with any losing effort, the [...]

Trump returns to the White House. Somewhere the 'late, great' Hannibal Lecter is celebrating, perhaps over a dinner of liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. The man [...]

National Journal's correspondents on what to watch on Election Night. In this jam-packed episode, Hotline editor Kirk A. Bado discusses the races and storylines to watch with National Journals correspondents. [...]

'The truth comes out [when I go] off this terrible teleprompter' the former president insisted. The last days of Donald Trump's campaign to reclaim the office he lost four years [...]

From William McKinley's day up through the 1940s, the GOP was the party of tariffs. Donald Trump had been president for only 15 months when he first flexed what became [...]

The race has featured a series of campaign firsts, including a candidate switch, felony convictions, and a Black woman nominee. Most presidential campaigns play out a certain way. Most have [...]

The former president's odd rally in Pennsylvania on Monday played right into the Democrats' new strategy. With less than three weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris enters the [...]

This month has brought several twists and turns already, but nothing on the level of James Comey's 2016 letter or the 2000 news of George W. Bush's DUI. To nobody's [...]

PLUS:EPA rule would force water systems to replace lead pipes, and Harris proposes to expand Medicare to cover home health services. Faced with the reality that the optics would be [...]

White House correspondent George E. Condon Jr. discusses what's on President Biden's schedule'and what's missing. Editor-in-Chief Jeff Dufour brings on White House correspondent George E. Condon Jr. to discuss what [...]

The presidential campaign's last event with a guaranteed big audience is now over. The American people got a throwback debate Tuesday night from two vice presidential candidates who reached back [...]

Every president since Taft has taken in a professional baseball game while in office. Biden has just five weeks to join them. Time is running out on President Biden if [...]

PLUS:Biden looks to rally world leaders to his vision; discharge petition sets up vote on bipartisan retirement bill; data-privacy legislation dead again; White House opposes IRS cuts. The House Foreign [...]

In New York, the president will focus on aiding Ukraine and shoring up alliances. Other leaders may focus on who his successor will be. When President Biden goes to New [...]

Desperate to see the Quad alliance survive his presidency, Biden is hosting the leaders of the three other signatory nations at his home in Delaware this weekend. With the end [...]

Even by Donald Trump's standards, the past two months have been especially self destructive, from questioning Kamala Harris's race to accusing immigrants of pet-eating to hating Taylor Swift. With only [...]

Many presidential election years don't have one memorable debate. This year has had two. This time, it was a fair fight. This time, someone was on the stage who could [...]

PLUS:Debate rules could handcuff Harris; newest senator sworn in; Biden administration issues mental health parity rules; and California wildfire shows effects of climate change. Lawmakers on both sides of the [...]

Hint:It's usually nothing like the Biden-Harris dynamic. This is the second of a two-part story on presidents' behavior toward their would-be successors. To read part one, on the dynamic emerging [...]

Supreme Court denies Oklahoma request to regain HHS funding; high court asked to block Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care; and administration unveils millions for hydrogen fuels. Amid fresh reports that [...]

Four days later, the party now portrays Trump less as an existential threat and more as an object of derision. Never has any party undergone such a dramatic transformation in [...]

In fewer than 40 days, Kamala Harris has gone from the relative invisibility of the vice presidency to delivering one of the most critical speeches in modern convention history. When [...]

Douglas Emhoff on Tuesday night was just the sixth spouse'and second husband'to give a formal convention address. When Douglas Emhoff addressed the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, he made history [...]

The tears and recriminations may come later, but for one hour, the president was still the star. It may not assuage the pain he feels after being pushed to the [...]

On Monday night, he'll make the case for a second term'only it will be Vice President Harris looking to serve that term. Fifty-two years after he attended his first Democratic [...]

He flattered Iowans, filled airtime when called upon to do so, and talked up his achievements. The first mention of Joe Biden attending a Democratic National Convention came on Wednesday, [...]

How Kamala Harris's pick stacks against his predecessors. In selecting the least well-known of the major contenders as her running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris hopes she gets the same [...]

The vice president would be only the third in 188 years to ascend directly to the top job. But like her forebears, she'll have to overcome charges ofweakness.' Kamala Harris [...]

The president suggested the decision involved much debate and personal anguish. A grateful President Biden Wednesday night thanked the nation for letting him serve as president for the last four [...]

Some mused that the president was faking his illness. Others thought he might be dead. President Biden returned to the White House Tuesday, finally clear of the coronavirus that abruptly [...]

President Biden should never have launched a reelection bid, but he was putting himself above the country'until Sunday. With one understated announcement tweeted out on a Sunday afternoon, Joe Biden [...]

As the president has embarked on a media blitz, his signature phrases likeanyway'look' andby the way' have gotten more frequent. Look! President Biden is talking and, by the way, he [...]

'Things change when you get shot in the face' said his son Donald Jr. Former President Donald Trump will accept his party's nomination for president Thursday in far better political [...]

In an interview with NBC's Lester Holt, the president said questions about his age arelegitimate' but that he's not going anywhere. A feisty President Biden Monday insisted he is staying [...]

The Oval Office address represented his most detailed remarks following the attempted assassination of former President Trump. President Biden Sunday appealed to Americans to 'lower the temperature in our politics' [...]

'Even if Saturday he has a perfect event, then the immediate thought is, what about Sunday? What about Monday?' That's the challenge Biden faces in his Monday interview with Lester [...]

In a high-stakes press conference, the president flubbed his lines again. But he also showed off his foreign policy chops. President Biden, enmeshed in the biggest political crisis of his [...]

It's not just Hill Democrats. NATO allies will also look for signs that Biden is fit to serve another term as they dread a Trump restoration. This was supposed to [...]

It's not just that he's trying to repair the damage from his debate with Trump 10 days ago. It's that he's still trying to sell voters on his current term, [...]

The president's interview with ABC this weekend recalls Wilson granting access to a friendly reporter to show how he'd recovered from a stroke. But this time, the cameras will do [...]

PLUS:Jean-Pierre defends Biden's fitness to serve, lawmakers claim TikTok violates child-protection laws, administration eyes appeal on LNG ruling, and Biden's student-loan relief temporarily restored. The Biden administration has a new [...]

PLUS:High court returns social media case to lower courts, while dealing another blow to federal regulators. Firmly declaring, 'I dissent' in a sharp rebuke of the Supreme Court's grant of [...]

Neither candidate delivered a strong performance. But the stakes for Biden were much higher. A remarkably stable presidential race frozen in place for 10 months got a monumental shake-up Thursday [...]

There are precious few events remaining that can move the needle on an otherwisefrozen election.' Thursday's face-off is one of them. When President Biden and Donald Trump face off against [...]

Plus:Biden rules out pardon or commutation for his son; IG faults FDA for response to infant-formula shortage; FAA chief updates senators on Boeing's safety practices. Former President Trump came to [...]

Biden and Zelensky are expected to announce a bilateral security deal, as well as a plan to put frozen Russian assets to work in defense of Ukraine. Just days after [...]