Ronald Reagan started a tradition as he prepared to leave office after two terms as president: Write a note congratulating your successor and leave it in the Oval Office desk drawer.

The Washington region should brace for dangerously cold weather on Monday when Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president. Temperatures will not get much above 20 degrees, and, factoring in howling winds,

For years, internet users have shared a quote about how to measure the success of welfare programs, attributing the words to Ronald Reagan, the former U.S. president and California governor. The full quotation read: "We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare,

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That's what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first lady decided to hold his second inauguration indoors because of an unusually cold weather forecast.

A federal appeals court has ruled against an Obama-era policy shielding hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have long lived in the United States from deportation

President-elect Donald Trump's decision to move his inauguration ceremony indoors because of cold weather has prompted comparisons to similarly cold weather during President Barack Obama's 2008 outdoor inauguration.

In the 40 years leading up to Trump’s first election victory, real hourly wages for Americans without college degrees — 64 percent of the population — actually shrank. Wages for workers with high school degrees dipped from $19.25 to $18.57, while workers who didn’t complete high school experienced a decline from $15.50 to $13.66.

Washington, D.C., will experience a high of 21 degrees and a low of 11 degrees around noon when the inauguration is set to begin.

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.

Chilly temperatures pushed President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration indoors, a rare but not unprecedented move.

The weather forecast is expected to be quite cold, likely the coldest since former President Ronald Reagan was sworn into office in 1985.

It will be the coldest Inauguration Day since former President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, when the noon temperature was 7 degrees.