As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others who have tried the same.

Of the 49 vice presidents in U.S. history, nine of them — or nearly 1 in 5 — have risen to the presidency due to death or resignation.

At the heart of JD Vance’s journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in law school, “Hillbilly Elegy.”.

Democratic Party leaders are publicly standing by President Joe Biden after a disjointed debate performance.

Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

On April 3, 1974, a deadly tornado barreled through Xenia, Ohio.

With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer.

Leftists in Chile were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Henry Kissinger is being remembered positively in China as an envoy who was willing to overlook ideological differences at the height of the Cold War and long after.

Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a distrusting President Richard Nixon.

The death on Wednesday of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has drawn admiration and scorn from political leaders around the world, highlighting the complicated legacy of Kissinger’s views about what it meant to serve America’s interests during the Cold War — and how the country should exert its influence.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died, his consulting firm says.

You may wonder how the infamous limousine ended up at a museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are preparing to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this coming week in San Francisco.

The Philadelphia Orchestra has returned to Beijing for a tour that will mark 50 years since its historic performance in China, the latest sign of improving ties between the two countries ahead of a highly anticipated meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.

The National Zoo’s three three celebrity pandas will be heading home a little earlier than expected.

The explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence has Arab leaders faulting a Biden administration policy that moved away from big U.S. pushes for a broad Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

The National Zoo’s three giant pandas are set to return to China in December with no public signs the 50-year-old exchange agreement struck by President Richard Nixon will continue.

The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is moving up festivities for the former president’s 99th birthday because of the threat of a partial federal government shutdown.

The White House is calling the Republicans’ newly-launched impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden “extreme politics at its worst.”.

Hillary Clinton has joined Jill Biden at the White House to honor the recipients of a prestigious arts prize.

The White House Situation Room — a space of great mystique and even higher secrecy — just got a $50 million facelift.

Concern for U.S. democracy has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting diverse beliefs.

Former federal appeals court judge and New York Senator James Buckley has died at age 100.

Even in a year when media layoffs seem a daily part of the news, the firing of three Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists in a single day was a gut punch.

Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public.

Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut governor Lowell P.

The United States is about to start the countdown to its 250th anniversary.

President Joe Biden's son Hunter is by no means the first presidential relative whose personal troubles have caused headaches for a White House.

You could call her the mother of Father’s Day.

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House.

Daniel Ellsberg, the government analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has died at 92.

Lawmakers this year kicked rival colleagues out of office in Tennessee and off the chamber floor in Montana.

Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during the second half of the 20th century and helped define an era of growing corporate power, has died.

Former diplomat and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger is marking his 100th birthday, outlasting many of his political contemporaries who guided the United States through one of its most tumultuous periods including the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War.

No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception.

In May 2017, comedian John Oliver tauntingly coined the phrase “Stupid Watergate” to refer to then-President Donald Trump’s ever-growing list of scandals at the time, including his reported dealings with Russia, the investigation into Michael Flynn and his firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to marijuana with a social mission.

Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaign.

Trump isn’t the only president to be embroiled in a scandal or controversy.

The last time Secret Service agents escorted a U.S. leader to face criminal charges, they kept their mission a secret -- even from their own bosses.

Donald Trump isn't the first president, in or out of office, to be in legal trouble.

While he’s far from the only U.S. president to be dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first ever indicted on criminal charges.

Renée Fleming spent decades portraying generals' wives, a countess and a courtesan.

Former President Donald Trump will release a new book next month that features letters from celebrities and politicians written to him through the years.

Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme.

As 2024's campaign season begins, politicians are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back.

As former President Jimmy Carter remains in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, many people are considering his impact.

Dancers, drummers and Namibia’s president and first lady welcomed Jill Biden to their country on Wednesday.

House Republicans are launching far-reaching investigations as part of their oversight agenda of the Biden administration.

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture.

This year's White House Christmas ornament gives a nod to former first lady Patricia Nixon.

President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden married her fiance, Peter Neal, on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday.

“Here Comes the Bride” will play at the White House very soon.

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, have doled out Halloween candy to trick-or-treaters dressed up as everything from Spider-Man to a flamingo to a monk to a zombie founding father.

Why has The Associated Press tallied votes and declared winners in U.S. elections since the middle of the 19th century.

Fentanyl and other potent synthetic opioids ingrained in the nation's illicit drug supply are killing more people in the U.S. than any other drug has.

Presidents come and go, but White House grounds superintendent Dale Haney has been a constant through the past 10 presidencies.

A legal battle over an endangered toad and a geothermal power plant in Nevada has many similarities to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark case on the Endangered Species Act nearly a half-century ago.

The office of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy says he is out of the hospital and he's planning to return to Vermont for a full schedule of planned events.

Vermont's 82-year-old Sen. Patrick Leahy has been hospitalized after he felt unwell at his McLean, Virginia, home.

The House Jan. 6 committee has subpoenaed Donald Trump for his testimony about the 2021 Capitol attack.

Jimmy Carter, already the longest-living U.S. president in history, turned 98 on Saturday.

Friend or foe.

President Joe Biden says his administration's goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by the end of the decade is ambitious but doable, if only the nation would work together.

As the country’s food charities struggle to keep up with rising inflation and demand, the White House will host a conference on Wednesday.

The Biden administration has an ambitious goal for America: ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030.

Members of Congress have officially objected to the results in four of the last six presidential elections.

The Japanese leader who normalized relations with China 50 years ago feared for his life when he flew to Beijing for the high-stakes negotiations at the peak of the Cold War.

On Sept. 23, 1952, Richard Nixon delivered in front of a national TV audience what became known as the “Checkers Speech,” a 30-minute address to the nation.

President Joe Biden is finding it’s easier to call out attacks on democracy than it is to stop them.

Hanging out with Richard Nixon's daughter.

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records.

Never before has the National Archives and Records Administration been caught up in a criminal investigation of a former president.

It’s been more than a decade since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W.

Many have cheered the White House proposal to provide student loan debt relief to millions of Americans as a significant step toward addressing the nation’s racial wealth gap and other inequities facing borrowers of color.

Climate activists are pressuring President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency, something the White House hasn't done yet.

The FBI’s unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence is ricocheting around government, politics and a polarized country.

The Jan. 6 congressional hearings have paused, at least for now, and Washington is taking stock of what was learned about the actions of Donald Trump and associates surrounding the Capitol attack.

The FBI says it found no evidence of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa during a search of land under a New Jersey bridge.

A former national security official in the Trump White House, Matt Pottinger, and a former press aide, Sarah Matthews, will be the key witnesses at a prime-time hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revealed long-suspected, little-talked-of links between him and the Unification Church.

President Joe Biden’s dash through Israel and the occupied West Bank this week is expected to cut across some of the region’s most iconic places.

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont underwent surgery Thursday after he broke his hip in a fall at his home.

The Supreme Court's decision that women have no constitutional right to an abortion marked the apex of a week that reinforced Donald Trump's grip on Washington more than a year and a half after he exited the White House.

The House Jan. 6 committee began its work under deep political skepticism.

Since the legislation was signed, the landscape of sports changed forever with the opportunities it has given female athletes.

Nielsen numbers tell us how many people watched live coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings — 20 million the first night, 11 million the second and nearly 9 million for the third.

Title IX is best known for its role in gender equity in athletics and sexual harassment on campuses.

China is defending its tough “zero-COVID” policy after the U.S. ambassador said it is causing serious damage to the global economy and foreign business sentiment.

It took close to two years for Richard Nixon to be driven from the presidency in disgrace after the Watergate break-in 50 years ago.

Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart, in vastly different eras, and they were about different things.

Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s early movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in “Seinfeld,” has died.

Stagflation.

A congressional committee’s hearings on the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection are coming up, and the public has been told to expect revelations.

President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States has a “commitment” to help Taiwan militarily if China invades.

Former White House national security adviser Robert C.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan backing to Powell’s high-stakes efforts to curb the highest inflation in four decades.

There’s nothing official Washington loves better than a juicy whodunit.