On the South Lawn of the White House, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump board the helicopter Marine One as they leave the White House. "It has been a great honor and an amazing four years," Trump was heard to say to a small throng of spectators as he gave a final wave. NBC's Peter Alexander notes that there has been no contact between Trump and President-elect Biden as the helicopter lifts off.

He can't go back up the escalator.

President Trump pardoned Stephen Bannon, his 2016 campaign chairman and one-time White House aide, late Tuesday amid a final flurry of executive clemency with just hours left in his administration. Bannon was arrested in August and charged with defrauding investors, mostly Trump supporters, through a group called 'We Build the Wall.' In its pardon notice, the White House said Bannon had received 'a full pardon' for…

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump depart from the White House ahead of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 2021.

Wayne's tweeted photo with Trump might have just saved him a prison sentence.

President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term.

The 'left-behind' voters who make up his base reflect a global populist-nationalist trend, and they are not going away.

With Donald Trump now out of the White House, The A.V. Club has decided that the best way to usher him off to irrelevancy is by (finally) ignoring him.

Federal prosecutors accused Robert Zangrillo of conspiring to pay a bribe so that his daughter would be admitted to the University of Southern California.

A rush of rulemaking took 'midnight regulations' to a new level, just in time for the Biden administration's arrival.

On his way out the door, President Donald Trump pardons a former Googler, Jack Ma reappears and Wattpad gets acquired. This is your Daily Crunch for January 20, 2021. The big story: Trump pardons Anthony Levandowski Although Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States as I write this, he still held the […]

There is no one quite like him in the Republican Party. So where should we look for the president's inheritors?

On the day he left my city, I got to see the view he had from the White House.

In the fraught final hours of Donald Trump's presidency, he issued a raft of pardons, including ones for Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez and rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black.

Trump and his allies hail their hawkish strategy, but the trade war failed and tensions remain high.

First lady Melania Trump released a seven-minute farewell video Monday, saying that "as Donald and I conclude our time in the White House," she is thankful...

First lady Melania Trump released a seven-minute farewell video Monday, saying that 'as Donald and I conclude our time in the White House,' she is thankful fo the military service members, law enforcement officers, and caregivers who have inspired her over the 'unforgettable' past four years. She also asked 'every American to be an ambassador of Be Best,' her anti-cyber-bullying initiative, and 'to focus on what…

McConnell has not yet signaled how he will vote in Trump's impeachment trial.