President Biden helped Christmas come early for 37 men on federal death row when he commuted their sentences to life without parole, many of them put there for the most heinous crimes.

President-elect Donald Trump said he would use the power of the pen at the start of his presidency to have the federal government recognize only biological sex.

The incoming Trump team blasted President Biden on Monday for his move that nearly cleared out the federal government's death row.

President-elect Donald Trump has once again suggested he wants to revert the name of North America's tallest mountain - Alaska's Denali - to Mount McKinley, wading into a sensitive and decades-old conflict about what the peak should be called.

The House Ways and Means Committee chairman is warning his colleagues that there will be dire consequences for farmers if Congress allows the Trump tax cuts to expire.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will have to work the phones over the holidays in a bid to avoid losing the gavel in January after some hard-right lawmakers denounced his handling of recent spending negotiations.

Anti-Trump federal government lawyers are being begged to "ride it out" in the new administration, with activists encouraging them to act as a bulwark against the incoming president's policies and actions.

Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.

Former President Clinton was admitted to a Washington hospital Monday with a fever, his spokesperson said on social media. “President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” Angel Ureña said on the social platform X around 5 p.m. EST. “He remains in good spirits...