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President Joe Biden released a simple holiday video card over the weekend that conservatives still found objectionable. The 20-second clip featured decorated Christmas trees in the White House, a toy truck filled with presents and paper doves hanging overhead.

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President Biden's announcement comes weeks after he granted a pardon to son Hunter over federal gun and tax charges.

In President Joe Biden's day-to-day work, they added, several key aides to the elderly official "were often with the president as he traveled and stayed within earshot or eye distance….They would often repeat basic instructions to him, such as where to enter or exit a stage."

The sentences of 37 of the 40 federal inmates on death row will be reclassified to life without the possibility of parole, the White House said.

Two of the federal inmates on death row whose lives have been spared by President Joe Biden are from the state of Georgia.

President Joe Biden recently delivered what the White House called “a legacy speech.” It wasn’t his last. He appears determined, as he was before he gave way to Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, to remind audiences of the big and consequential ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of all but three of the men on federal death row. Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers will be the only men on the federal execution list when President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding the death penalty, takes office on January 20.

Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden secured his 235th appointment to the federal judiciary on Friday, narrowly surpassing President-elect Donald Trump's first-term tally by one with a record number of women and people of color named to the bench.

All of Biden's picks will serve lifetime appointments, meaning they will serve to protect his legacy when Trump takes office.