Joe Biden

Next month, Biden, a practicing Catholic, will meet with Pope Francis, who recently called for prayers for U.S. death row inmates in hopes their sentences would be commuted.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is one of three federal inmates to remain on death row

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land...

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, brought some holiday cheer to patients and families at a children’s hospital in Washington.

President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet with Pope Francis and top Italian officials for what is expected to be the final international trip of his presidency.

In an interview, Biden weighed in on the issue, which has come under increasing scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

A former FBI informant has pleaded guilty to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, that became central to a Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.

As President Joe Biden makes a final push to confirm judicial nominees before his term in office ends, he is on track to have appointed more federal judges of color than any president before him.  On Monday, the Senate confirmed Biden’s judicial nominee for the Northern District of Georgia, Tiffany Johnson, making her the 40th Black woman he has...

The White House said that Thursday was the highest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day.

“America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” the president said in a statement Thursday.

President Joe Biden spoke about the fall of the government of President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria.

President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone over the Thanksgiving holiday last week, according to two people familiar with the call.

During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump made threatening comments about people he said had slighted or wronged him.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill is pumping nearly $70 billion dollars into improving and expanding passenger rail across the U.S. National climate reporter Chase Cain shows us that traveling by train can also be good for the planet.

Amid musical performances and a visit from Santa, President Joe Biden illuminated the National Christmas Tree outside the White House Thursday evening for the last time in his presidency.

President Joe Biden became the first U.S. President to visit Angola, a central point in the slave trade, speaking about the “cruel, brutal, dehumanizing” practice that was America’s “original sin.”

A federal judge formally dismissed the gun case against Hunter Biden on Tuesday after President Joe Biden issued a sweeping pardon for his son.

President Joe Biden granting his son Hunter a sweeping pardon, described as “full and unconditional,” that will keep the younger Biden away from prison time in both his gun crimes conviction and tax crimes guilty plea, was a major talking point in the political world from Capitol Hill to Beacon Hill. “It’s just not surprising,” said MassGOP Committeewoman Janet Fogarty....

There was a mixed reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter from politicians and political observers in Massachusetts, with Sen. Ed Markey saying the younger Biden was only prosecuted because of his father’s position, while Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jake Auchincloss had different reactions....

Plus, NBC10 Boston political analyst Sue O’Connell offers context on other recent controversial presidential pardons...

The first lady welcomed National Guard families to the White House on Monday to be among the first members of the public to see the decorations.