“Biden/Harris don’t bear primary blame for the inflation,” said Jeffrey Frankel, a Harvard University economist. “Primary blame, rather, goes to supply constraints as the economy came out of Covid and the acceleration of commodity prices that came with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Melania Trump's office intervened this week after media reports that she had rejected Jill Biden's invitation to meet at the White House. President-elect Donald Trump, Melania Trump's husband, met President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to discuss a "peaceful and orderly transition" of power.

Both Trump and Biden have thrown sharp verbal barbs at each other over the years. But it was soft voices and smiles in the Oval Office.

Biden’s White House welcome to Trump versus Trump’s snub of Biden four years ago is matched by lack of reciprocity in the economy each gifted the other. Then-President-elect Biden inherited an economy from President Trump in shambles with the greatest economic collapse in the post-World War II era due to COVID-19.

Biden's administration has warned the President-elect that Tehran and its proxies pose a continuing daily risk to Americans.

President Joe Biden is beginning a six-day visit to Peru and Brazil for the final major international summits of his presidency.

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

President-elect Trump returned to the White House for the first time since being elected 47th President of the United States and since leaving his first term in 2021, thanking President Biden for the "smooth transition.

First Lady Jill Biden is still extending her hand to former first lady Melania Trump, despite Melania skipping out on Wednesday’s meeting with the current First Lady and President.

EMBARGOED UNTIL 5 AM ET FRIDAY Please file in national politics headlines package, North America politics headlines and US news headlines if deemed appropriate Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to preserve at least some of the outgoing president's legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January.

President will meet with an array of foreign leaders as his repeated promise that “America’s back” appears at risk