Executive orders have shaped U.S. history, from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to FDR's New Deal. Recent presidents, ...

What do the Peace Corps, desegregation of the military, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II have in common? They were all established by presidential executive orders, or ...

Trump had signed 279 executive orders (220 in first term, 59 in second), surpassing Obama's 276 over two terms.

Legal expert Richard W. Painter warns that Elon Musk’s unchecked power in the Trump administration poses a historic threat to democracy. As Musk exerts influence over government agencies without Senat ...

Joseph N. Laplante, chief judge for the federal district court in New Hampshire, said he was not persuaded by arguments an ...

George Washington signed eight executive orders, while Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... an executive order by then-President George H.W. Bush that would establish a human fetal tissue bank for ...

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order barring transgender girls and women from playing as girls and women at ...

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted a restraining order temporarily reversing the Trump administration’s moves to ...

It has been a tumultuous few weeks in the U.S. as the Trump-Vance Administration makes changes that will affect humanitarian ...

President Trump is expected to close the office as he cuts programs to help poor and minority communities that are ...

Last week was another busy week for the White House, with several notable Executive Orders and more agency leadership changes ...