One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.
The American flag sitting atop of the White House was lowered to half-staff following Donald Trump's inauguration to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter. According to U.S. flag code, 'all federal buildings,
The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as the backbone of democracy to Richard Nixon’s declaration that “the
Recently, pop stars including Beyoncé and Lady Gaga have sung at presidential inaugurations, but it wasn’t always a platform for chart-topping performers.
A recent Gallup poll found Biden’s approval rating aligned most closely with former U.S. President Nixon, who had a minus-42 net rating. However, while the two presidents had similar net scores, the poll found that Biden’s ratings were more polarized ...
Fred Mendoza, a member of Nixon’s Cabinet Committee on Spanish-Speaking People, pauses during the wreath laying to commemorate President Richard Nixon’s birthday at his library and museum in Yorba Linda, CA on Friday, January 10, 2025. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Elders Gary E. Stevenson and Gerrit W. Gong attended President Donald Trump's second inauguration, a longstanding practice for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sains.
Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...
Republican governors across eight states have ordered flags to be flown at full-staff during Trump's inauguration. The states include: Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Nebraska and Alabama. The flag was flown at half-staff to honor of former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on December 29 at the age of 100.
Mike Johnson said he is going to order that the Capitol's flags, which are at half-staff due to the death of Jimmy Carter, be raised for Donald Trump's inauguration.
The sermon’s duration was less than 15 minutes. Its theme—a call for unity grounded in faith at a time of political division—was hardly out of the norm for a post-inauguration service at Washington National Cathedral,
On Jan. 23, 2020, the Chinese government issued a travel ban for all residents of Wuhan, the epicenter of a novel coronavirus outbreak that would come to cause a pandemic.