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President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump for a traditional postelection meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House said Saturday.

Such a meeting is customary between the outgoing president and the incoming president, and is meant partly to mark the start of a peaceful transfer of power under America's democracy.

But Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election, when Trump lost his reelection bid.

Trump sought the presidency four years later, and this week he defeated...

President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House announced on Saturday.

The meeting will be held at 11 a.m. local time, according to the statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Mr. Biden extended the invitation for the meeting.

Such a meeting is customary between the outgoing president and the incoming president and is meant partly to mark the start of a peaceful transfer of power under America's democracy. However, Mr. Trump did not host Mr. Biden for a sit-down after the 2020...

President Biden extended the invitation to his former rival as part of a longstanding tradition to help ease the transition to a new administration.

Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss laid claim to the rings as part of their $148 million defamation judgment.

Note: Exit poll percentages may have updated since this post.

In the 2024 election, 10 states had abortion-related measures on the ballot — and Americans voted in favor of protecting abortion access in seven of them.

But support for these ballot measures outpaced support for Kamala Harris, who made abortion rights a hallmark of her campaign.

In two key battlegrounds — Arizona and Nevada — voters backed measures that added the right to abortion to their state's constitution, but nonetheless, Harris trails Donald Trump in the vote count in these...

With Republicans taking control of the Senate, many of President-elect Trump's Cabinet nominees are likely to face an easy path to confirmation, even some who may be controversial.

Here are some of the possible people Trump is considering or has chosen for critical Cabinet posts and top White House jobs.

Susie Wiles

The day after he was declared president-elect, Trump announced his campaign co-chair Susie Wiles would be his chief of staff. Wiles, an experienced political operative based in Florida, will be the first woman in U.S. history to fill...

Nearly 4 million people visited the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii in 2023, a third more than the previous year.

Antônio Vinicius Gritzbach had recently agreed to hand over information about the Primeiro Comando da Capital group.

About 50 others were injured in the blast, the city's commissioner says.

For more than a century, President Grover Cleveland was in a league of his own as the only leader of the nation to serve non-consecutive terms as the 22nd and 24th president of the U.S. Now, Cleveland shares that honor with President-elect Donald Trump, who was the 45th president of the U.S. and will soon take office as the 47th. But in Cleveland's hometown, locals still want to preserve his legacy.

Cleveland was born the fifth of nine children in Caldwell, New Jersey, about 20 miles outside of New York City. His humble home was near the...

The victory of the four-term Republican, who has resisted his party’s veer to the right, dashed Democratic hopes of flipping a critical district.

Howard Lutnick, co-chair of the president-elect’s transition team and a Wall Street financier, is leading the search for appointees while still running his businesses.

Bryan Lanza's comments come days after Trump had a phone call with Ukraine's Zelensky and billionaire Elon Musk.

Willem-Alexander says Jewish people must feel safe in the Netherlands after Israeli football supporters come under attack.

His Candyman co-star has called him an "angel" and a "truly poetic man".