WASHINGTON -- Days before he left the White House in 2017, President Barack Obama surprised Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, declaring his septuagenarian, white-haired lieutenant "the ...

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 47th vice president of the United States in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. Mr. Biden has served in public life for ...

So ends the half-century career of a flawed but resilient politician who won the White House in a razor-thin election and lost it four years later in a debate: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Biden, 81, ...

Joseph Robinette Biden stepped away from a third run for the White House on Wednesday, acknowledging the window has closed for a viable run and that the vice presidency will be as close as he gets to ...