Incoming President Trump is planning to target federal diversity and pro-transgender initiatives among his early slate of executive orders, officials said on Monday. The latter order will be aimed at “defending women from gender, ideology, extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government,” officials told reporters in a phone call. The order would clarify that it is U.S. government policy to recognize just two sexes, male and...

President Biden pardoned his siblings just minutes before leaving office on Monday. The pardon applies to James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden, the White House announced. The president argues that his family could be subject to “politically motivated investigations” after he leaves office. “I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions...

President Biden delivered a two-word message to President-elect Trump at the White House on Monday.  “Welcome home,” Biden shouted to Trump, as the soon-to-be 47th president arrived outside the White House with his wife, Melania Trump.  Trump walked up the steps and greeted Biden and first lady Jill Biden. The couples posed for photos, but did not answer questions shouted by the press. The Bidens and the Trumps...