President Obama’s second inauguration is set to take place next month in Washington, D.C., with a National Day of Service Jan. 19, a private swearing in on Jan. 29 and the big event — the public ...

None other than Beyonce will kick off the festivities after the presidential inauguration on Tuesday, Variety’s Wilshire and Washington blog reported. The “Cadillac Records” star will sing the first ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As January approaches and many begin to prepare their inauguration plans, the Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced that public tickets will be made available for one of the two inaugural ...

Love may be lovelier the second time around, but second inaugurations rarely outdo the first. Washington, D.C., is preparing for a much smaller to-do than President Obama’s 2009 unprecedented blowout.

ATLANTA — Commemorative events for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. slid seamlessly into celebrations of the swearing-in Monday of the nation’s first black president, with many Americans moved by the ...

Sens. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., have been taken from an inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama. A Capitol police officer stood up at the luncheon and said ...