Former President Joe Biden's pardon of Judge Michael Conahan drew bipartisan outrage in Pennsylvania, and now, his additional pardons draw new attention to the power.

Brendan Carr, newly installed as chairman of the FCC under the new Trump administration, is reviving a trio of complaints aimed at NBC, ABC and CBS content, ones that his predecessor dismissed for being “at odds with the First Amendment.

President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office at 8 p.m. Eastern. Here's what to know.

Several corporate media outlets have reported that President Donald Trump’s inauguration received lower ratings than former President Joe Biden’s, though

Biden is departing Washington having given the fewest news conferences and media interviews of the last seven presidents.

President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W.

Right-wing media pundits were unimpressed with President Joe Biden’s farewell speech on Thursday, including one Fox panelist who could hardly believe AI didn’t write it and another Newsmax anchor who suggested Biden’s dentures were coming loose.

"And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing is he didn't give himself a part. And, if you look at it, it all had to do with him."

While Trump made his triumphant return to the White House, viewership was down compared to Joe Biden’s ceremony in 2021, which drew nearly 40 million. Fox News, meanwhile, drew almost half of the entire television viewing audience for the ceremony across seven cable and broadcast news networks.

Donald Trump and JD Vance‘s January 20, 2025 inauguration viewership was down by more than 10 million from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ 2021 audience. Viewership was also lower than Trump’s first inauguration in 2017,

That’s a lower total than what was achieved by both of the two most recent inauguration broadcasts: 27% below the 33.8 million viewers who tuned into Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in 2021, and 21% below the 31 million who watched Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.

U.S. President Joe Biden will speak to the nation during his farewell address live today, Wednesday, Jan. 15 on major cable networks. Here, Biden answers questions from reporters as he speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Susan Walsh/AP