President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only president inaugurated in an unusual location.
A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At 2 p.m., Washington recited the constitutionally mandated oath on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, the fledgling nation’s temporary capitol.
Nearly 7,500 participants from 23 states will join the parade this year, the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee has confirmed.
A Canton man who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol is among the more than 1,500 pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump announced Monday that he would commute, pardon or dismiss cases against nearly 1,500 people accused of storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a deadly, failed attempt to stop certification of former President Joe Biden's victory.
The US president’s power to pardon is both one of the most absolute and misunderstood provisions of the Constitution. Rooted in the “prerogative of mercy” of English kings dating back to the seventh century,
Mr Trump is more transactional than presidents before him, which increases the risk of cronyism and self-dealing. But America’s economy, including its technology industry, is too unwieldy and dynamic to petrify into an actual oligarchy, whatever diplomats and departing presidents say. ■
President Donald Trump’s second inauguration seemed normal, but there were concerns about U.S. democracy lingering just beneath the surface.
Just over 1,500 people accused of storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will have their sentences commuted or pardoned, or their charges dismissed.
Donald Trump will take the oath of office saying he returns to the presidency “confident and optimistic” it's the start of “a thrilling new era of national success.”
Garfield County Clerk Lorie Legere and her husband Jack were in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, for the Donald Trump's inauguration as 47th president of the United States.
Dozens of people with ties to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol gathered outside the detention facility in Washington to celebrate Trump’s pardons of those convicted of crimes that day.