A few heads of state have refused to celebrate their successors. “It’s usually a sign that American society is in the midst of major political feud,” the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said.
Hasta que Joe Biden, de 78 años, asuma el cargo este miércoles, el presidente Trump ostenta el récord como el presidente más viejo. Theodore Roosevelt, quien ascendió al poder a los 42 años, ha sido el mandatario más joven.
The transition of official White House social media handles is more complicated now than four years ago.
The transition of official White House social media handles is more complicated now than four years ago.
Trump’s final pardons, Biden’s first executive orders: This is your morning tip sheet.
We spoke to fans of President Trump about the Capitol riot and their feelings before Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Despite losing a Senate seat and seeing Joe Biden win the state, state party leaders in the land of Barry Goldwater and John McCain aren’t switching gears. They’re doubling down.
There is no one quite like him in the Republican Party. So where should we look for the president’s inheritors?
Biden’s campaign strategy put Democrats in agony. Here’s why it worked.
The judgment of history will be damning.
The actor who portrayed Lyndon Johnson and Walter White says he’s drawn to broken characters. But he’s got his limits.
A journey through four years of Trump in The Times.
Biden’s campaign strategies often worried Democrats. But they worked.
La juramentación de los presidentes estadounidenses ha evolucionado un poco desde los días de George Washington.
“Normally, after a president’s term, they show before and after photos to prove how much the job aged him. This time, they’re showing before and after photos of all of us,” Jimmy Fallon joked on Monday.
The report charges that Americans are being indoctrinated with a false narrative of the nation’s founding and identity, including the role of slavery in its history.
The president’s proclamation, which would not take effect until Jan. 26, after Joe Biden assumes office, was part of a flurry of orders that Mr. Biden is likely to reverse.
The president’s proclamation, which would not take effect until Jan. 26, after Joe Biden assumes office, was part of a flurry of orders that Mr. Biden is likely to reverse.
The nation’s military has a history of downplaying white nationalism and right-wing activism, but the siege of the Capitol has created a new urgency for dealing with them.
Inauguration Day brings with it an awkward transition when one family moves in and another moves out, made all the more so this year by the coronavirus and President Trump’s stormy departure.
The inaugural of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is not the first to take place at a tense moment in American history.
Before Jefferson Davis there was John C. Calhoun. What rougher beasts do Trump, Hawley and Cruz prefigure?
President Trump ordered an end to the ban on travelers from Europe and Brazil to the United States, a move that was quickly rejected by aides to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The project had already been languishing, but the action by Mr. Biden would signal his determination to undo President Trump’s environmental legacy.
Among those under consideration for grants of clemency are the former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and the rapper Lil Wayne.
El presidente de México llegó a apreciar el estilo no intervencionista de Trump y ha empezado a agitar las aguas frente a un gobierno que anticipa será más entrometido.
The nation’s capital has been secured with checkpoints, tens of thousands of National Guard troops and miles of fencing and barricades, security at the cost of normalcy.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to appreciate Mr. Trump’s hands-off style, and is already making waves with an incoming administration he expects to be more meddlesome.
Jan. 6 wasn’t Keller’s first election protest in Washington. But as he makes tearful apologies and faces federal charges, even his closest confidants aren’t sure why he was there at all.
Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 attack in Oklahoma City spurred legislation that gutted death row inmates’ rights. In the wake of the siege of the Capitol, will we make a similar mistake?
Jack Dorsey, el director ejecutivo de la red social, tenía reservas sobre el bloqueo de la cuenta del presidente de Estados Unidos. Pero los llamados a la violencia que sus tuits provocaban eran demasiado abrumadores.
The conservative publishing house said Senator Josh Hawley had been the victim of cancel culture.
Environmentalists have long targeted the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline as both a contributor to climate change and a symbol of the country’s unwillingness to move away from an oil-based economy.
Until Joe Biden is sworn in on Wednesday, President Trump holds the record for the country’s oldest chief executive. At 42, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest.
A vast majority of Americans do not approve of the riot at the Capitol. But experts warn that the widespread belief there was election fraud, while false, could have dangerous, lasting effects.
When Joe Biden takes office, there will be several children's book authors and subjects in the White House.
The inauguration has evolved a bit from George Washington’s day.
White supremacy was built on lies. In a reality-denying age, it follows that racism has flourished.
Minnesota Republicans celebrated election victories with a gala party. A state senator’s death from Covid-19 underlined the consequences of the G.O.P.’s rejection of health experts’ guidance.
In its last six months, the Trump administration put more than three times as many prisoners to death as the federal government had in the previous six decades.
As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks to his political future, his turbulent tenure is characterized by investigations into his leadership and ethics.
It is infuriating that the Trump administration left so many of these things undone.
But after a few terrible weeks, there are reasons for Americans to be cautiously optimistic.
After the White House declined to pursue a unified national strategy, governors faced off against lobbyists, health experts and a restless public consumed by misinformation.
The defense from Trump supporters arrested in the Capitol assault is emerging in court papers and interviews — and could play a role in impeachment proceedings.
In Michigan, government officials and law enforcement prepared for the possibility of significant violence ahead of the inauguration, but by Sunday’s end only a small group of armed protesters had ventured to the state capitol.
People able to enter the militarized perimeter around the U.S. Capitol caught a glimpse of an occupied city amid preparations for the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden.
The acting defense secretary ordered the spy agency to appoint Michael Ellis, who has been accused of having a hand in one of the Trump administration’s most contentious legal decisions.
Readers urge Americans not to let fear dominate a momentous day, and offer suggestions for former presidents and the media.
In several videos on Facebook, the man, Edward Jacob Lang, could be seen in the mob outside the building in Washington.
Many people will not forgive the Republican House leader’s blatant acts to embrace and perpetuate dangerous lies that threatened democracy.
Loyalists to President Trump are increasingly relying on conspiracy theories and misinformation, drawing false equivalence with last summer’s racial protests and blaming outside agitators.
The president’s allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars — and potentially much more — from people seeking pardons.
In an effort to mark a clean break from the Trump era, the president-elect plans to roll out dozens of executive orders in his first 10 days on top of a big stimulus plan and an expansive immigration bill.
A network of far-right agitators across the country spent weeks organizing and raising money for a mass action to overturn President Trump’s election loss.
Why the Republican leader should be tempted by the Senate’s opportunity to bar Trump from running for president again.
Finding omens of American decline on a long walk across Asia.
In conservative Bakersfield, Calif., Kevin McCarthy enjoys solid support. But in the days since impeachment, some Republicans now say he has not been loyal enough to President Trump.
The usual bustle of lawmakers moving in and out of offices gave way to a horrific scene.
G.O.P. leadership would like to blunt President Trump’s influence over the party. Mr. Trump and his allies want to punish those who have crossed him. A series of clashes looms.
Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president’s account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.
Four years of hard-core branding, soap opera chic and designer trolling are coming to an end. What have we learned? A look back in gilt.
An ideological jumble of far-right extremists and hate groups flourished under President Trump and claimed new energy after the attack on the Capitol. Now they are debating their next moves.
Isolated and angry, a diminished President Trump is leaving Washington for an uncertain future.
In the final moments of his presidency, Mr. Trump is confronting an unfamiliar fate: He is being held to account as never before for things he has said.
The president’s response to the riot at the Capitol underscored the ways he has twisted the phrase “law and order” over the past four years.
It was the 13th and final scheduled federal execution under President Trump. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said he opposes the death penalty.
Facing looming shortages and rising infections, the president-elect promised mobile vaccination sites, National Guard troops and a federal push to increase vaccine production.
Here is a moment-by-moment timeline of events on Jan. 6, when a mob assaulted the U.S. Capitol.
The Trump administration wants to mandate job reviews for top government scientists and managers every five years, which could lead to reassignment.
The Oklahoma senator, who is up for re-election in 2022, said he had not realized his objection to the election results would be seen as a direct attack on the voting rights of people of color.
In his final days in office before a new administration takes over, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy changed a regulation to sidestep court rulings requiring the medical examination.
The Fulton County district attorney is weighing an inquiry into possible election interference and is said to be considering hiring an outside counsel.
The speaker called the impeachment of President Trump “urgent,” but did not send the charge to the Senate to prompt the start of a trial, nor commit to when she would do so.
President Trump, isolated and watching the clock count down on his time in the White House, spent some of it on Friday with the C.E.O. of MyPillow, Mike Lindell, who brought some notes with him.
Rosanne Boyland died after losing consciousness in the crush of a pro-Trump mob as it surged against the police. Here’s how it happened.
Scheduling President Trump's trial "at a really precarious time."
Low taxes and light regulation made the party popular with corporate America for decades. President Trump and his supporters have frayed those bonds.
One reader urges conviction to “deter future demagogues” while two others worry that a trial will increase divisiveness.
Readers discuss the role of Fox News as provocateur, paying for the damage and legal bills, keeping artifacts as a reminder, police heroism and more.
Late-night hosts were put to the test this week. Here are their takes on the fallout from President Trump's impeachment.
Each year, President Trump’s proposed federal budget eliminated funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. But the agency survived, largely by relying on bipartisan support in Congress.
Washington withdrew from the treaty, which lets countries make reconnaissance flights over each other’s territory, last year. Moscow’s move could signal difficulties for the Biden administration.
Each year, President Trump’s proposed federal budget eliminated funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. But the agency survived, largely by relying on bipartisan support in Congress.
Senator James Lankford said in a letter that he had never intended to “diminish the voice of any Black American” by questioning the election results. Still, he added, “I should have recognized how what I said and what I did could be interpreted by...
Days before President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration, the North made its latest demonstration of its nuclear might at a Pyongyang military parade.
Finally the world agrees that Trump is exactly the man his fiercest critics said he was. But has the reckoning come too late?
Mainstream Republicans and conservative commentators have been pushing the idea that Democrats can only win through fraud for decades.
As New York City moves to void its contracts with Trump Organization properties, one of them stands out as a problem no matter what name is on the sign.
Australia’s ruling party defends its own, even when colleagues spread misinformation about the Capitol siege and the coronavirus. Why?
El segundo proceso de destitución al presidente Trump —en un Capitolio rodeado de tropas— parecía la culminación inevitable de cuatro años que dejan a una nación fracturada, molesta y sin sentido claro de identidad.
Autocrats around the world won’t gain from the United States’ pain.
“Impeachment was great, but there really is no more perfect way for this to end than Trump stiffing Rudy,” Seth Meyers said.
Senate leaders were working to agree on a dual track to try the departing president at the same time it considered the agenda of the incoming one, an exercise never tried before.
Dozens of people in Washington on the day of the attack on the Capitol were said to be on a terrorism watch list.
White House officials are universally angry with Rudolph W. Giuliani and blame him for both of President Trump’s impeachments. But he remains one of few people still willing to join Mr. Trump in the foxhole.
As President Trump prepares to exit the White House, his ideas, including falsehoods and conspiracy theories, continue to exert a gravitational pull among grass-roots G.O.P. officials.
La decisión de volver a colocar a Cuba en la lista de Estados acusados de patrocinar el terrorismo se tomó en “los últimos coletazos de una fracasada y corrupta administración”, dijo el presidente cubano. La isla espera con ansias el cambio de gobierno en Washington.
Some Republicans are thinking about voting for President Trump’s impeachment, as the Senate prepares for a trial.
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.
Tech giants are finally taking action to sideline the president and far-right extremists. What does that mean for the rest of us?
At least 16 states and territories are using the National Guard to give shots, drawing on doctors, nurses, medics and other troops who are skilled in administering injections.
After a week of Trumpist mayhem, white evangelicals wrestle with what they’ve become.
David Norquist will be Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s acting defense secretary, if only for a few days. A retired rear admiral, John Kirby, will be the Pentagon press secretary.
A reader says that for security reasons, the swearing-in should take place at the White House. Also: Maskless legislators; the nuclear arsenal; books for presidents coming and going; tax avoidance.
Biden can help.
A series of headlines have brought attention to the Queens Daily Eagle, a small outlet in the borough where the president was born.
A series of headlines have brought attention to the Queens Daily Eagle, a small outlet in the borough where the president was born.
Readers discuss when to hold the trial and whether to have witnesses, and praise two members of Congress for showing courage by voting to impeach and working amid grief.
Notes and testimony from a Justice Department official implicate President Trump and White House aides in the “zero tolerance” policy that led to family separations at the border.
He attested that President Trump would be the “healthiest president ever,” but he was later expelled from his orbit.
Trump enters the history books. Now what will McConnell do? This is your morning tip sheet.
Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views, and Facebook rewarded them.
Now that his presidency has disintegrated into mayhem, how are the conservative justices processing his tenure?
In a special bonus episode of “The Argument,” Jane Coaston defends the law that made the internet as we know it.
“Makes sense — this president loves having seconds,” Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday.
President Trump became the first president to be impeached twice, after the House approved a single charge citing his role in whipping up a mob that stormed the Capitol. He faces a Senate trial that could disqualify him from future office.
The president-elect has long tried to keep from being sucked into President Trump’s dramas. He may find that posture hard to maintain when he takes office and the Senate puts Mr. Trump on trial.
The impeachment of President Trump for a second time — in a Capitol ringed by troops — seemed like the almost inevitable culmination of four years that left the nation fractured, angry and losing its sense of self.
The troops lined the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday as the House of Representatives prepared to vote to impeach President Trump one week after he incited a mob to overrun the complex.
The video was made public after President Trump was impeached a second time and after he told his supporters in the hours following the start of the riot last week that “we love you.”
Talk about a bankrupt presidency.
One week after the siege of the Capitol, lawmakers impeached President Trump a second time under heavily armed guard.
The Trump administration’s response to the attack, incited by the president, has lacked broad reassurances to a country on edge.
The House impeached President Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the U.S. government.
Democratic lawmakers also demanded answers about visitors to the Capitol a day before the riot.
The impeachment of President Trump for a second time — in a Capitol ringed by troops — seemed like the almost inevitable culmination of four years that left the nation fractured, angry and losing its sense of self.
A lengthening list of blue-chip giants of corporate America are pledging to cut off funds to Republicans who opposed certifying the election, and Democrats are planning ad campaigns against them.
Cuando solo queda una semana de su mandato, la Cámara de Representantes aprobó otro juicio político contra el presidente Trump, pero probablemente dejará el cargo antes de ser juzgado en el Senado. Así es como funciona el proceso.
We must clear an ecosystem of mass delusion spread by Fox News and many Republicans.
Mr. Neguse described his first vote to impeach President Trump, in 2019, as defending democracy.
Prosecutors said Eduard Florea threatened violence against the Rev. Raphael Warnock in online messages on the day of the Capitol riot.
Una potente mezcla de agravio y fervor religioso ha impulsado el apoyo entre los leales a Trump, muchos de los cuales se describen como parte de una especie de guerra santa.
The troops will be the National Guard and not active-duty. But officials know such events are fraught with risk and cite Kent State in 1970, Tiananmen Square in 1989 and Tehran in 2009.
Clear majorities of Americans believe the president is responsible for the riot at the Capitol last week, but support for impeaching and removing him is not as widespread, polls suggest.
The House delegate from the Virgin Islands lobbied to be part of the first trial of President Trump. Now she has her chance.
With a House majority voting to impeach President Trump on a charge of inciting insurrection, here is a look back at what happened to Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Andrew Johnson.
After years of pursuing tech giants for antitrust violations, Mr. Cicilline is shifting his focus to impeachment.
Readers discuss whether Congress should be spending its time on impeachment and how Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney have responded to efforts to remove the president.
Ms. Dean was among the lawmakers who hid in the House gallery as a mob of pro-Trump supporters tried to break into the chamber.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives impeached President Trump for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, following the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol. Ten Republican members voted with Democrats.
With a House majority voting to impeach President Trump on a charge of inciting insurrection, here is a look back at what happened to Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Andrew Johnson.
A retired judge writes that the president would have done better to look into the eyes of the children detained by his immigration policy. Also: Girls do coding, too.
Keller, a two-time gold medalist, faces federal charges that include disorderly conduct and obstructing law enforcement.
Durante casi cuatro años, el vicepresidente se mordió la lengua frente a los impulsos de su jefe, algo que los críticos dicen que permitió lo peor del presidente. Así fue la semana en que resistió a los insultos y presiones de Trump.
With only a week left in his term, the House impeached President Trump, but he will leave office before he stands trial in the Senate. Here’s how the process works.
Keller, a two-time gold medalist and former teammate of Michael Phelps, faces federal charges that include disorderly conduct and obstructing law enforcement.
Going far beyond expectations, the Trump administration eliminated protection from more than three million acres of northern spotted owl habitat in the Pacific Northwest.
The representative from Colorado, first elected in 1996, spent 14 years as the Democrats’ chief deputy whip and often holds the gavel in the House.
With only a week left in his term, the House is set to impeach President Trump, but he will probably leave office before he stands trial in the Senate. Here’s how the process works.