Robert Caro spends most of his days writing the fifth and final volume of his Lyndon Johnson series, more than a decade in the making and still without a scheduled release date.

As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others who have tried the same.

No longer on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden delivered a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library designed to help cement his legacy.

President Joe Biden has made his first address since his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

Democratic Party leaders are publicly standing by President Joe Biden after a disjointed debate performance.

Bernie Sanders will be Joe Biden's most powerful emissary to progressives and to younger voters this election year.

Teachers at Head Start child care centers are paid far less than public school teachers, even though they have similar credentials.

Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson.

Experts in constitutional law and the military say the Insurrection Act gives presidents tremendous power with few restraints.

An Associated Press reporter whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades has died.

One of the greatest literary editors in modern times, Robert Gottlieb, has died.

Andrew Young, one of the last surviving members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle, recalls the journey to the signing of the Voting Rights Act as an arduous one, often marked by violence and bloodshed.

No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception.

Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaign.

In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W.

In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W.

No current or former Texas politician has announced a campaign for the 2024 presidential race.

It’s early yet, but next year’s presidential race may feature something the political world hasn't seen in the last 50 years: no elected officials from Texas.

Jimmy Carter’s path to the presidency is an oft-told story, especially by aspiring presidents trying to be the next politician to defy Washington expectations.

The 117th Congress opened with the unfathomable Jan. 6, 2021, mob siege of the Capitol.

The good news on Robert Caro’s very long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words.

They may be publishing's most famous author-editor pairing.

The National Christmas Tree is now blazing with bright color.

President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden married her fiance, Peter Neal, on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday.

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't re-up as a House leader next year, even her adversaries acknowledged that hers was a remarkable era.

“Here Comes the Bride” will play at the White House very soon.

Hispanic Heritage Month is a great time to learn more: For some, more about your own heritage, or for others, perhaps another culture.

A local elected official got court-appointed attorneys during his arraignment on a murder charge in the stabbing death of a Las Vegas investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his managerial conduct.

Hanging out with Richard Nixon's daughter.

French President Emmanuel Macron has turned his attention from Great Britain's new head of state to the new head of government on Saturday evening.

She went horseback riding with Ronald Reagan.

The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died.

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records.

It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W.

The 4th Congressional District in Washington state is a land of snow-capped volcanic peaks and lush irrigated apple orchards.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

It was launched as the new president’s ambitious plan for rebuilding America.

A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes that are terrorizing people across America.

California released an exhaustive report detailing how government laws and policies perpetuated discrimination against African Americans.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan backing to Powell’s high-stakes efforts to curb the highest inflation in four decades.

Historian Mark K.

When you live in a home passed down from previous generations, deep-time design opportunities lurk around every corner.

Antawn Jamison knows what it's like to play basketball with Michael Jordan in a pickup game while in college — and what it's like to go up against MJ in the NBA, too.

Michael Jordan gave way to LeBron James in the NBA of the 2000s, just as traditional forms of communication began to yield to the birth and growth of new media.

History was made the instant Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court.

The discovery of more than a dozen boxes of records at Mar-a-Lago has alarmed historians and archivists, who rely on government documents to eventually provide a more complete picture of every presidential administration.

This week’s new entertainment releases include a musical reunion of Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, the first take of a multi-part documentary on Kanye West and the return of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” for its pandemic-delayed fourth season.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the criticism he received over a comment made about African American voters is outrageous and offensive.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats "made progress” toward changing the Senate’s filibuster rules to advance voting legislation, despite the dramatic collapse of the package that his party says is central to protecting democracy.

The last of a new class of warships has departed a Maine shipyard.

The White House Historical Association is honoring President Lyndon Johnson with its 2021 annual Christmas tree ornament.

LBJ tried jawboning.

The grind of legislating is treacherous for some, a sport for others, and rarely successful in the slow-moving Congress.

Rarely have the leaders of Congress been asked to do so much with so little in trying to navigate President Joe Biden’s big domestic vision into law.

It’s big, messy and complicated as the Democratic leaders in Congress try to muscle President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic policy package into law.

When President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis on Friday, he won’t kiss the ring.

Robert Caro has been writing history for much of his adult life.

First lady Jill Biden has campaigned for Democrats in Virginia's and New Jersey’s governors' races.

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” agenda is poised to be the most far-reaching federal investment since FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society.

U.S. military planes have carried the last U.S. service members and diplomats from Kabul's airport, ending America's longest war.

At just short of 20 years, the now-ending U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan was America's longest war.

President Joe Biden’s belief that bipartisanship is still possible in a deeply divided Washington was validated when Senate Democrats and Republicans came together to pass his $1 trillion infrastructure bill.

Houston area officials say the latest wave of COVID-19 cases is pushing the local health care system to nearly “a breaking point,” resulting in some patients having to be transferred out of the city to get medical care, including one who had to be taken to North Dakota.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have forged an unlikely yet understandable partnership.

The nearly 20-year American combat mission in Afghanistan was the United States’ longest war.

The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug on research on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.

We set our calendars around national holidays — from December 25 for Christmas to July 4 for Independence Day, and, starting this year, June 19 for Juneteenth.

Congressional leaders and a media advocacy organization are urging the Federal Communications Commission to investigate how policy decisions have disparately harmed Black Americans and other communities of color, according to a letter sent Tuesday to the acting FCC chair.

After nearly two years of renovations, the Harry S.

Case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time.

For a president who had campaigned on his ability to work across the aisle, Joe Biden's announcement of a bipartisan deal on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package was a victory.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle on Sunday, and afterward the president told reporters traveling with him that the 95-year-old monarch was “very gracious” and reminded him of his mother.

Joe Biden will become the 13th American president to meet Queen Elizabeth II.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest daughter says she’s afraid American society is unraveling.

Six months into the Democrats’ hold on Washington, the party’s progressive wing is growing increasingly restless.

On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation declaring the second Sunday of each May would be “a public expressions of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country,” also known as, the creation of Mother’s Day.

Families who’ve fought for recognition for soldiers who died while traveling to Vietnam for a secret mission have something to celebrate.

Joe Biden’s presidency is entering a new and more perilous phase.

Progressives are looking for their next big win now that the COVID-19 relief bill has been signed into law.

Progressives are looking for their next big win now that the COVID-19 relief bill has been signed into law.

“Hillbilly Elegy” author J.

Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark has died.

President Joe Biden’s vision of his presidency is quickly taking shape.

FILE - In this July 1981 file photo released by The White House, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, left, and Vice President George Bush go horseback riding at Camp David, Md. He capped it off by beating one of his granddaughters at Mario Kart during his first presidential visit to Camp David, the historic retreat for U.S. leaders. That’s what Camp David has traditionally offered presidents: a respite from Washington where they can shed their ties and relax with family. Bill Clinton tried to replicate that diplomatic alchemy when he invited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Camp David for Mideast peace talks in 2000. He said when foreign leaders descend on Camp David, it can be like an “adult sleepover.”“Going to camp in the cabins creates an atmosphere where leaders are very close together.

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington. One featured a public show of trying to reach across the political aisle, with bipartisan rhetoric and a White House invitation for Republican senators. But it's more likely that the White House will need to choose between the two extremes. “President Biden’s got some pretty big tests in front of him when it comes to domestic policy. AdThe process of securing the $787 billion package — aid broadly credited for helping boost an economy in free fall — left a bad taste for the Obama-Biden White House.

WASHINGTON – When Joe Biden took the oath of office as the 46th president, he became not only the oldest newly inaugurated U.S. chief executive in history but also the oldest sitting president ever. That’s 78 days older than President Ronald Reagan was when he left office in 1989. A look at how the country Biden now leads has changed over his lifetime and how his presidency might reflect that. The world population in Biden’s lifetime has grown from about 2.3 billion to 7.8 billion. The month Biden was born, a dozen eggs averaged about 60 cents in U.S. cities -- two hours of minimum wage work.

Now that he's left office, it's hard to see him embracing the stately, exclusive club of living former presidents. “He kind of laughed at the very notion that he would be accepted in the presidents club,” said Kate Andersen Brower, who interviewed Trump in 2019 for her book “Team of Five: The Presidents’ Club in the Age of Trump." Obama, Bush and Clinton recorded their video after accompanying Biden to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider following the inauguration. When Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast, Bush, father of the then-current president George W. Bush, called on Clinton to boost Katrina fundraising relief efforts. Obama tapped Clinton and the younger President Bush to boost fundraising efforts for Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake.

Ron.”Thus was born the tradition of departing presidents leaving a handwritten note in the Oval Office for their successors. President Donald Trump has refused to accept the results of November’s election and vowed not to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. I know you will feel that, too,” Bush wrote in the note, adding, "I wish you great happiness here. Updegrove said even if the note tradition stops with Trump, it could easily start again when Biden leaves office. He has already been vice president and spent 36 years in the Senate, where tradition and bipartisan congeniality are strong.

Now Biden’s central political identity faces the ultimate trial. Biden's answer follows two tracks: defending the fabric of society and institutions of government that Trump’s tenure has stressed and calling for sweeping legislative action. The outcome will determine the reach of Biden’s presidency and further test the lifetime politician’s ability to evolve and meet events. Biden’s longtime friend, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is the House speaker, but presides over a diminished Democratic majority and slim margin for error. “They believe in his compassion and they believe in, quite frankly, his leadership skills.”Anzalone loosely compared Biden's appeal to Ronald Reagan's.

It meant buying into “alternative facts” — a phrase that spurred sales of George Orwell’s dystopian book “1984” when it was coined by a Trump aide. “I’m shocked to hear that,” Trump told his crowd. “And we now have the greatest, most modern military in the history of our country,” Trump told his Georgia crowd. But the systematic deceptions of the “alternative facts” president were unlike anything before. Attempting to explain her phrase, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said there are alternative ways of arriving at the truth.

Yet only two days later, on Aug. 28, 1963, the FBI’s head of domestic intelligence, William C. Sullivan, sounded an internal alarm on King. Absolutely not.’ In some ways, you could even say we were a little bit complicit.”On one hand, “MLK/FBI” enhances the legacy of King. Not just King’s indiscretions but an explosive and controversial allegation discovered by Garrow in FBI records that King watched while a woman was sexually assaulted. “A big part of my thinking two years ago is that everyone needs to be prepared for what will be in the full transcripts and the surviving tapes," Garrow said. The FBI’s recordings of King are under court seal at the National Archives until Jan. 31, 2027.

When Biden takes office later this month, his biggest challenge may be navigating a deeply divided country past the turmoil of the Trump era. Biden essentially framed his presidential campaign as a response to Trump, pledging to “restore the soul” of America. He has said he decided to seek the White House after watching Trump say there were “very fine people on both sides” of a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Biden has to be very conscious of dealing with President Trump," Updegrove continued. But the senator said the inauguration itself may offer the most important opportunity for Biden to set a forward-looking tone.

“For all four years, this is someone who at every opportunity tried to stretch presidential power beyond the limits of the law,” said presidential historian Michael Beschloss. I think he’s done tremendous damage in the last several weeks.”Jeopardizing the peaceful transfer of power was hardly Trump's first assault on the traditions of the presidency. He rage tweeted at members of his own party and used government property for political purposes, including the White House as the backdrop for his renomination acceptance speech. Trump used National Guard troops to clear a largely peaceful protest across from the White House for a photo-op. He held superspreader events at the White House and contracted the virus himself.

African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans and other people of color played a crucial role in helping Biden defeat President Donald Trump. "It's nice to know that a Native American is under consideration," said Haaland, who says she is concentrating on her congressional work. A record six Native American or Native Hawaiian lawmakers were elected to Congress. Tribal officials concur there has never been a Native American as head of interior. The department's websites cite six Native American heads of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which was transferred to the Interior Department from the War Department in 1849.

At least 231 inmates and staff members have died of COVID-19 in Texas prisons and jails, according to the report by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Other states that started off with a higher number of COVID-19 prison deaths have been dramatically more successful in reducing deaths than Texas, the study found. Seven out of the 106 prisons in the Texas system account for over half of the COVID-19 deaths in prison in Texas. Almost 6% of the inmate population at the Duncan Unit geriatric prison near Lufkin in East Texas has died of COVID-19, and more than 80% of the COVID-19 Texas prison fatalities were over age 55, the report states. Twenty-one prison inmates died behind bars with less than two years left to serve on their sentences.

“It’s a mistake to ever have thought Wisconsin was a safely blue state,” said state Democratic Chairman Ben Wikler. To reverse Clinton's losses in the “blue wall” states, Biden benefited from both strong suburban turnout and in the urban centers of Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee. Even in losing Republican-heavy Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Biden's suburban gains were part of his winning Wisconsin formula. Trump also lost Saginaw County, Michigan, a struggling former General Motors supply manufacturing county Obama carried before the president flipped. But we're still a manufacturing economy and nearly stagnant in our growth,” Erie County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Wertz said.

Election Day is finally here. Or at least what we still call Election Day, since nearly 100 million Americans had already cast ballots by Tuesday. Here's what to watch as the final votes for President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are cast:WHAT DO AMERICANS WANT FROM A PRESIDENT? So it’s an open question how aggressive those official poll watchers will be in monitoring voters or even challenging eligibility. Trump is likely to counter with a lead among Election Day voters.