President Donald Trump has not conceded the 2020 election to Joe Biden, but he's heading into the lame-duck period of his presidency based on voting projections. "Lame duck" refers to a ...

It seems like every two years, members of Congress who retired or have been let go by their constituents get one last chance to legislate. A good government policy would be to not schedule lame duck ...

What can, and should, the lame-duck session of the 117th Congress accomplish? Senator Angus King tells us why reforming a law from 1887 is at the top of his to-do list. We go back to a ...

Joe Biden has only seven weeks left in office but is still pushing his agenda: His Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission continue to prevent mergers; his State Department is imposing ...

LIMA — Lame-duck President Biden was relegated to the back corner of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference’s annual family photo in Peru, as Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed a ...

Former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque has called President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. a “lame duck” in the wake of the 2025 ...

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten compared President Donald Trump to a "soaring eagle" rather than a lame duck on Tuesday, citing that the president had signed the most executive orders at this ...

US President Joe Biden is planning to implement some major policies before leaving the White House during a period known as a "lame duck" presidency in which the outgoing head of state can use his ...

about setting up his team in the White House for a second time — even as the incoming president called on Republican senators to block Democratic judicial nominees in the lame-duck session of ...

The president of the Philippines holds immense power, wielding even the ultimate power of the purse (with the executive being the fund disbursing authority), which often renders the House of ...

Government funding, disaster relief and energy permitting could all be complicated by year-end partisan angling. Congress returns to Washington on Tuesday with a packed to-do list for the lame ...

LANSING — The last time Michigan had a Democratic trifecta during a lame-duck legislative session was 1934. That year, Michigan's longest-serving U.S. senator — the late Carl Levin — was ...