WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is spending his final full day in office Sunday in South Carolina, a state that holds special meaning after his commanding win in the 2020 Democratic primary there set him up to achieve his life's goal of being elected president of the United States.

When Donald Trump takes control of the White House on Monday, he will inherit something his voters hardly would have expected during a long campaign of berating outgoing President Joe Biden on immigration: a U.S.-Mexico border with the lowest number of illegal crossings in five years.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attended a somber prayer service in New Orleans on Monday for families of victims and impacted community members following the New Year's Day attack in the city. "I know events like this are hard. The shock and ...

If public opinion polls are the guide, Joe Biden has been the worst president since Richard Nixon. Here's why that may be true.

As Donald Trump heads back to the White House, Democrats debate what might have been had the president bowed out in time to let a younger generation run.

Biden and his aides have spent their final days in office announcing dozens of moves — on topics from immigration to offshore drilling — aimed at tying up President-elect Donald

The economy rebounded strongly from the COVID shock, but the U.S. continues to grapple with a cost-of-living crisis and spiraling federal debt.

With only days left in the White House, President Joe Biden was saving a few surprises for his farewell address Wednesday evening.

As Washington prepares for a new administration, a souvenir shop offers discounted Biden and Harris merchandise on Jan. 10. | Stephen Voss for POLITICO President Joe Biden’s bid for historical greatness came to grief in one day: Nov.

And December’s Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics – the last one of Joe Biden’s presidency – emphatically put the exclamation point at the end of this tale: 256,000 new jobs burst onto the market while the unemployment rate fell again to 4.1%.

The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries.