When President Donald Trump took the oath of office, he didn't have his hand on the Bible. Does this matter and why do politicians do it at all?

Jones, took the stand Wednesday, delivering emotional testimony against the former prosecutor now charged with interfering in ...

She held the Bible in one hand, and their daughter Mirabel Rose in the other, as Vance placed his left hand on the religious text, and raising his right hand took the oath of office ... for Supreme ...

The ex-wife of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group, said President Trump’s decision to commute his 18 ...

President Donald Trump, when taking his most recent oath of office, did not appear to place his left hand on either of the Bibles brought to the swearing-in ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday.

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

while he was taking the oath of office. It leads one to ask: “Why bother to have them there in the first place? As with other examples Trump so blatantly provides, almost on a daily basis ...

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, marking an unprecedented political comeback ...

Earlier after taking the oath of office and events at the Capitol, Trump spoke to a roaring crowd at Capital One Arena, where he also signed several executive orders. Now that he's finished ...

prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington obtained a landmark conviction against Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, on charges of seditious conspiracy for the ...