A lame-duck president "pardoned" a turkey Monday. "They tell me there's 2,500 people here today looking for a pardon," President Biden joked at a White House ceremony on the South Lawn.

"The era of coups and juntas is over," he declared, linking Turkey's current stability to his own authoritarian rule. MURAD SEZER/POOL/AFP President Erdogan and his wife Emine voted at a school in ...

(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) This story originally appeared on NPR. A lame-duck president will “pardon” a turkey Monday. Not to be snood-y about it, but this fowl tradition has a ...

The national turkey lobby first presented a turkey to President Truman in the 1940s for Thanksgiving, and President George H.W. Bush began the annual tradition of pardoning turkeys, Biden said.

"It's a life-sized Turkey transportation truck, and it's covered with images of real sickly turkeys. And if people listen very closely, they will hear a subliminal message to go vegan every 10 ...

Continuing a tradition that goes back years, President Joe Biden will partake in his last turkey pardon during his administration. Every year, the president "pardons" one or two turkeys before the ...