Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

Donald J. Trump made history on Jan. 20 when he became the first convicted felon to take the presidential oath of office. Speaking from the Capitol in Washington—the same building that was infamously ...

The inauguration of a president, which occurred Monday in Washington, D.C., is about more than one person, or more than one presidential term. It is about a republic and her people, recommitting ...

President Donald Trump was sworn in Monday morning among a group of dignitaries and guests inside the Capitol.

(NEXSTAR) – For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to watch the inauguration of the ...

President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will be moved indoors, he announced Friday, due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital. “I have ordered the ...

WASHINGTON — The DMV is bracing for a bitterly cold Inauguration Day. Donald Trump will be sworn in as president during an inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025 with wind chills in the single digits and ...

Donald Trump is all set to return to the White House with his second inauguration as president of the United States. Trump, 78, will formally be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States ...

Inauguration Day is just days away when President-elect Donald Trump will once again take the oath of office, marking his second time as the country's top leader. Trump, 78, has already been busy ...

D.C. The Presidential Inaugural Committee also confirmed that the Inauguration Day Parade will be moved to Capital One Arena. The decision to relocate indoors marks a rare departure from the ...

Regardless of poetry’s Homeric arc from “the rosy figure of dawn” to any of the latest insomnia-curing volumes of verse, the prohibition of an inaugural poem at a presidential inauguration ...