Biden Administration

The Democratic-led Senate confirmed the 235th federal judge nominated by President Joe Biden, marking a milestone for the outgoing occupant of the White House by giving him one more than former President Donald Trump secured.

President Biden announced this morning that his administration has cancelled the student debt for about 55,000 borrowers.

The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would forgive another $4.28 billion in student loan debt for 54,900 borrowers who work in public service.

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bill to
place 172 acres of land in East County into tribal trust for the Jamul
Indian Village, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk.

President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet with Pope Francis and top Italian officials for what is expected to be the final international trip of his presidency.

Biden signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to serve in a presidential Cabinet

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday described President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to jail members of the House Jan. 6 Committee as “an outrageous statement” and said President Joe Biden should consider pre-emptive pardons for committee members.

Roughly 1,540 people had their sentences commuted or were pardoned by President Joe Biden on Thursday in what was the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

As President Joe Biden makes a final push to confirm judicial nominees before his term in office ends, he is on track to have appointed more federal judges of color than any president before him.  On Monday, the Senate confirmed Biden’s judicial nominee for the Northern District of Georgia, Tiffany Johnson, making her the 40th Black woman he has...

The White House said that Thursday was the highest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day.

Officials are monitoring the outbreak, but say that a vaccine is not yet warranted because the virus isn’t spreading among people or causing severe illness.

The U.S. plans to support Syria and its neighbors after rebels toppled Assad’s dictatorship.

It was 1906 when U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the first national monument — Devils Tower in Wyoming.

During his first term, President-elect Donald Trump declined to defend a similar Obama-era Labor Department fiduciary rule in court.

With just a little more than a month and half left in office, President Joe Biden is under pressure to forgive more student debt.

The first lady welcomed National Guard families to the White House on Monday to be among the first members of the public to see the decorations.

On Sunday night, President Biden issued a “full and unconditional pardon” for Hunter Biden’s federal gun and tax evasion charges.

The 2024 White House holiday decorations include 83 Christmas trees and more than 28,000 ornaments.

President Joe Biden spoke from the White House Rose Garden Tuesday afternoon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

President Joe Biden participated in the 77th turkey pardoning at the White House, sparing two turkeys from Minnesota.