No, inauguration festivities are not legally required. Posted: January 16, 2025 | Last updated: May 29, 2025. Speeches, parades, balls, and concerts are not required ...

After a year like no other — a country wrestling with a deadly pandemic, a president who refused to concede the election, crippling unemployment and food lines — the 2021 inauguration was ...

Cold temperatures forced President Donald Trump’s second inauguration indoors, but hundreds of fans gathered outside the U.S. Capitol and Capital One Arena thought it a necessary sacrifice to ...

Over 220,000 tickets are starting to be distributed for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. Here's what to know about ticket requests, resellers and more.

No, Inauguration Day is not a federal holiday. However, employees of the federal government who work in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area have the day off of work.

President Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony Monday featured the largest, most complex security footprint of any inauguration in U.S. history. The nation's capital was transformed seemingly ...

No world leader has attended an inauguration since 1874, according to State Department records cited by CBS News, which reported that foreign ambassadors and their spouses typically represent ...

The night before his Jan. 20 inauguration, Donald Trump took the stage at the latest of his seemingly 60,000 campaign rallies to tease how enjoyable his swearing-in ceremony would be. “You’re ...

Former Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama arrive for Trump inauguration 03:31. Former first lady Michelle Obama said her decision to skip President Trump's inauguration in January was her making a ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed another reason why she skipped President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, and this time it had to do with her wardrobe.

Four years ago, during the inauguration of President Biden, no inaugural balls were held. It wasn't because of any pushback, but rather, due to health restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will be moved indoors, he announced Friday, due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital.