The S&P 500 index gained 2.91% to just short of the 6000 mark, its best percentage gain since the week of Election Day ended on Nov. 8.

Presidents get too much credit or too much blame for the economy, it’s often said, but the public never fails to render its own judgment. They gave Joe Biden and Kamala Harris a failing grade and put Donald Trump back in the White House.

On the night of June 27, 2024, leading Democratic politicians and major media figures finally stopped pretending that Joe Biden was still operative. They had no choice. Biden’s feeble confusion during a debate with former President Donald Trump was witnessed on live television by an estimated 73 million people.

The president can believe what he wants to believe, and at this point, there appears to be no convincing him otherwise.

President-elect Donald Trump is hoping to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” by naming Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as “special ambassadors,” whose goal will be to bring back business lost to “foreign countries.” “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a …

President Joe Biden will give a farewell speech to the ... Even so, job growth couldn't ease the pain that the high rate of inflation inflicted on Americans during Biden's presidency.

Overshadowing it all, at least for now, is his ejection from the 2024 campaign amid concerns of declining mental acuity — and then the election of Donald Trump, whom Biden had once defeated and dubbed a threat to American democracy.

Readers parse through the president’s accomplishments and failures on his last day in office.

Republicans are taking control of the House, the Senate, and the White House for only the third time since the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower.

Biden’s greatest flaw, like Lear’s, was his unwillingness to face a changing reality. He refused to drop out of the 2024 race until he had already damaged his party’s chances of keeping the White House. Even after a disastrous debate performance, he tried to brush off his obvious inadequacies as a candidate: “I just had a really bad cold.”