Far from “lame ducks,” these U.S. presidents served out the end of their terms grappling with economic disasters, international crises—and even states seceding from the Union.

President-elect Joe Biden this week proposed a COVID-19 relief package that would deliver one-time $1,400 checks to most Americans. The direct payments Congress sent most households last year in response to the coronavirus pandemic were so popular with...

BIden will add clinics, bolster the public health workforce and invoke a wartime production law to ensure adequate vaccine supplies.

US investigators have opened 275 criminal cases and charged roughly 98 individuals in connection to last week's pro-President Donald Trump riot at the US Capitol, federal officials said Friday, emphasizing they are focused on rounding up the most violent...

President-elect Joe Biden is elevating the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet-level position, a move that highlights the emphasis the incoming administration plans to put on science as it inherits a public...

On January 4, Nebraska Republican Governor Pete Ricketts was asked if undocumented workers in the state's meatpacking facilities would be receive vaccinations as part of the next phase of distribution.