The certification of the Electoral College vote was once seen as ceremonial. Two moments 20 years apart remind us how high the stakes really are.

Kamala Harris will join a short list of other vice presidents who have overseen the ceremonial confirmation of their own losses

No president gets to choose the major crises that shape their legacies. Here are a few that may shape Donald Trump’s.

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It’s a practice that Vice President Kamala Harris will resume on Jan. 20 after an eight-year hiatus.

Kamala Harris is readying on Monday to certify the 2024 election results, affirming President-elect Trump’s victory as well as her decisive defeat to him after a whirlwind run for commander in

But hobbled by inflation, illegal immigration and his own advancing age, Mr. Biden leaves office as an unpopular one-term president, turning over the Oval Office to a man he considers a fascist and a danger to democracy. He hopes that history will remember him more fondly than his contemporaries do and, as with other presidents, it just well might.

The only two candidates in modern U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose the White House were Democrats Hillary Clinton (2016) and Al Gore (2000). WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump ...

United States Vice-President Kamala Harris has previously called President-elect Donald Trump a threat to American democracy. She has said he is a fascist. She has predicted he would abuse the powers of the presidency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — There was no drama on Monday as Kamala Harris oversaw the ceremonial certification of her defeat to Donald Trump ... Kennedy in 1960. Al Gore followed suit when the U.S ...

For the first time in 20 years, a Republican presidential candidate is ready to take the White House as the winner of the popular vote.

A state funeral is a gathering of the Washington clans, a convocation of the very establishment that Trump has pledged to destroy in his second term. Carter was not a clubbable man and his self-conscious piety was sometimes an irritant for his successors. He was the uneasiest member of the ex-president’s club apart from Trump.