President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only president inaugurated in an unusual location.
A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At 2 p.m., Washington recited the constitutionally mandated oath on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, the fledgling nation’s temporary capitol.
John Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump's first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the CIA.
The U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday said a man who passed a security checkpoint with a handgun and toured the chamber was arrested and charged.
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 attacked by a howling mob of his supporters on Jan.
Mr Trump is more transactional than presidents before him, which increases the risk of cronyism and self-dealing. But America’s economy, including its technology industry, is too unwieldy and dynamic to petrify into an actual oligarchy, whatever diplomats and departing presidents say. ■
Garfield County Clerk Lorie Legere and her husband Jack were in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, for the Donald Trump's inauguration as 47th president of the United States.
Donald Trump became the 47th American president on Monday, but the oath of office itself has been administered 73 times before to the 46 preceding chief executives. According to the Architect of the Capitol,
For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to watch the inauguration of the incoming president, with some noteworthy exceptions.
On Friday, organizers announced that the Inauguration would be moved indoors to the United States Capitol Rotunda because ... including James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens ...
A coalition of advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging Mr. Trump's bid to upend birthright citizenship just hours after it was issued, kicking off what is expected to ...
A man carrying a loaded handgun managed to pass through U.S. Capitol security, tour the Visitor Center, and walk through the halls of one of the nation's most secure buildings before being arrested just outside.