Biden Administration

The bald eagle, a symbol of the power and strength of the United States for more than 240 years, earned an overdue honor on Tuesday: It officially became the country’s national bird.

President Joe Biden has vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 new federal district judgeships. Biden said Monday that “hurried action” by the House left key questions unanswered about the lifetime positions.

President Joe Biden has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law despite his objections to language banning transgender health care for military children.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Monday he’s commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, reclassifying their sentences to life without the possibility of parole. “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said…

A local family is grieving the news of President Joe Biden commuting their daughter’s killer. News4’s Ted Oberg reports.

The Biden administration has withdrawn its two major plans to deliver student loan forgiveness to millions of Americans. Here’s what borrowers should know.

Next month, Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences would be commuted.

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.

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...

Hours after President Joe Biden pardoned him, a former felon finally feels like a free man years after walking out of jail. News4’s Walter Morris spoke with him.

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.