Opinion: At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the ...

Carter struck a balance between satisfying the needs of employers and protecting American workers from foreign labor ...

Josh Stein's half-staff flag order. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Why are the flags remaining at half ...

The crowd roared, stymieing the opening words of an awkward statesman from Georgia who stood before the Democratic National ...

Then-President Joe Biden ordered flags be flown at half-staff for 30 days following the death of former President Jimmy ...

Flags across Arizona and the U.S. have been flying at half-staff for nearly a month, but they will soon return to full-staff.

Reynolds, along with other Republican governors, ordered all flags to be raised for Jan. 20 in honor of President Donald ...

In a proclamation issued Dec. 29, Biden ordered flags across the U.S. to be flown at half-staff for 3 days "in honor and ...

The memorial services for former President Jimmy Carter began in his home state of Georgia on Saturday, with an emotional motorcade through his hometown of Plains, ahead of his state funeral in ...

Flags have flown at half-staff since the death of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29. The official mourning period ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...