Joe Biden

U.S. President Joe Biden reportedly said that he regrets dropping out of the race for President because he believes he could have beaten Donald Trump, leading to a variety of onlooker reactions.

The Washington Post reported that the President regrets departing the 2024 presidential race after pressure from allies to step aside. The outlet cited sources familiar with Biden's thinking.

President Joe Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of 37 inmates was met with fierce backlash on Thursday from outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin.

Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks escaped from a Kentucky jail in 2002 and launched into a nearly three-week crime spree, abducting and killing 19-year-old Samantha Burns, a Marshall University student, from a mall in West Virginia.

President-elect Donald Trump hit out at Joe Biden Tuesday in a Christmas Eve meltdown over his commutation of the sentences of almost every American federal prisoner on death row.

Biden announced Monday he would remove the death sentences from 37 of 40 prisoners, replacing them with life imprisonment.

President Joe Biden exhibited profound "moral wisdom" in his decision to commute 37 out of 40 death row inmates to life without parole, Elizabeth Bruenig wrote for The Atlantic on Monday.

Biden issued these pardons to prevent another spree of executions like that which occurred under the first Trump administration — although, perhaps sensitive to the controversy over his last mass clemency including some particularly heinous criminals, took care not to commute the sentences of the Charleston church shooter, the Boston Marathon bomber, or the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter — and despite that, Republicans still pounced and threw a fit over the decision.

A Biden administration move that would complicate Donald Trump's agenda on issues involving transgender athletes and student debt cancellation is drawing fresh scrutiny from incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

President Joe Biden is pulling back on efforts he’s undertaken to provide protections for transgender student-athletes and to erase student loan debt for more than 38 million Americans, The Associated Press reported. That includes the White House scrapping unfinished rules across multiple agencies if they cannot be finalized in enough time before Trump enters the White House, the publication added.

President Joe Biden surpassed President-elect Donald Trump's judicial nominee record on Friday, leading to a chorus of cheers from Democrats in Congress — and a forceful boo from at least one firebrand Republican.

The Democratic-led Senate confirmed Biden's 235th nomination for a federal judge, NBC News reported. He's set to depart office after appointing one Supreme Court justice, 45 appeals court judges, 187 district court judges and a pair of International Trade Court judges, according to the report.

Dozens of convicted murderers set to be executed by the federal government could see their sentences commuted by President Joe Biden, according to a report.

People familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that Biden is mulling over commuting most, if not all, of the 40 men facing execution. If commuted, the men would be resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The move would disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's ability to resume swift executions.

Donald Trump on Friday welcomed a potential shutdown of the government before he takes office.

Trump risked a shutdown when he pressured GOP lawmakers to reject a bipartisan spending deal, which resulted in a second deal which died after being rejected by almost all Democrats and some Republicans.

Recent reporting that President Joe Biden’s health was far more diminished than the administration led on was proclaimed to be “the biggest scandal in America” by longtime GOP insider Scott Jennings – a declaration a Democratic strategist only minorly pushed back on.

Responding to a Wall Street Journal article out Thursday that reported signs of Biden’s decline came within months of his taking office, Jennings eagerly cast doubt on Biden’s entire presidency.

President Joe Biden's mass clemency has faced backlash as it included a judge in the infamous "kids-for-cash" scandal. And a new report Friday evening said the White House did so without considering the specifics of the case.

The outgoing president on Thursday said he commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others. The White House called it the largest single-day act of clemency in American history.

President Joe Biden announced a historic mass clemency this week, commuting the sentences of 1,500 nonviolent offenders who were previously transferred from prison to house arrest as part of a COVID pandemic measure to reduce the risk of infection in federal prisons.

But it's unclear whether the president reviewed all the cases he commuted because, according to CNN, two of them in particular were infamous public corruption cases — and the commutations have spurred outrage in affected communities.

One of the Biden administration's final acts will be securing a legal prohibition on the merger of two of America's largest grocery chains, Kroger and Albertsons — a deal that, had it gone through, would have created a combined company with more locations than Walmart and eliminated a major source of competition that keeps food prices stable.

The case, brought by outgoing progressive Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, will likely be her last major action before she is ousted in the Trump administration. Khan stands to be replaced with a far-right, pro-merger commissioner who has vowed to focus more on fighting "DEI," "wokeness," and internal dissent against Trump than corporate misconduct.