Major Pete Hegseth narrated the pageantry on the banks of the Delaware before joining Washington in making the crossing.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his ... Following the ceremony, Washington retreated to the Senate chambers to deliver his inaugural address, followed ...

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.

From hiring undocumented nannies to heavy drinking, sins that sank past Cabinet nominees seem quaint in the new era of low standards.

Two appointed senators, with the significant failure rate of those appointees, might be the helping hand that Senate Democrats need to climb back into power.

Ahead of Donald Trump's second inauguration, take a look back at the transition of presidential power throughout U.S. history.

With Trump's presidential inauguration just around the corner, review the history and meaning of Inauguration Day.

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama would not be able to serve a third term because they served two consecutive terms.

"Africa can expect substantial changes from the United States over the next four years," Rama Yade, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, wrote in a pre-Inauguration analysis. While Donald Trump in his first term pursued an "America first" foreign policy,

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his confirmation came down to Vice President JD Vance serving as tiebreaker.

As White House officials packed up last week and their Trump counterparts prepared to move in, dozens of senior leaders in both administrations trundled into the neighboring Eisenhower Executive Office Building to game out how the new government would respond to an emergency,

The tactics are reminiscent of the ones taken the first time Trump entered the White House. At the time, Democrats homed in on eight nominees they would delay, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warning against a “rushed” process.