Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America today in Washington, D.C.

In his speech after the oath, administered clumsily by Chief Justice John Roberts, Obama asked Americans to work hard so that America…

As was expected, President George W. Bush commuted the sentences of two border patrol guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for seriously wounding a suspected drug runner. They now are…

Jay Nixon, governor at last. (AP Wirephoto/Jeff Roberson)

By our clock, Jay Nixon was inaugurated a little early as Missouri’s 55th governor. The clock was still a couple of minutes shy of noon when Laura Denvir Stith, the chief justice of…

Michael Newdow, the man who sued to get the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, is the lead plaintiff in a suit filed in U.S. District Court that seeks to get the words “so help me God”…