WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Joe Biden will watch President-elect Donald Trump take the oath of office. The moment — a rare one in which the outgoing president will witness his ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has announced the release of two Americans in a prisoner exchange. In a statement Tuesday, ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...

President Donald Trump says his administration will move to suspend the security clearances of the more than four dozen ...

The relatives who were granted clemency in the final minutes of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency had not been charged with wrongdoing, but some had drawn scrutiny. By Kenneth P. Vogel Ken Vogel ...

Bolton did, however, publish before getting permission to do so, and anyone who has had a security clearance knows that dodging the review is a violation not just of the letter of one’s clearance ...

WASHINGTON — Outgoing President Biden on Monday issued a slew of pardons for more kin, including a broad, 11-year granting of clemency for his brother James — effectively killing any chance of ...

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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden pardoned his brother James Biden and other relatives Monday for unspecified crimes, a similar last-minute move to protect his family from potential investigation ...