Former Vice President Mike Pence will receive the 2025 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for “putting his life and career on the line” to ensure the peaceful transfer of power in 2021, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced on Thursday.

Pence publicly split with President Donald Trump after Trump pressured Pence to reject electoral votes won by then President-elect Joe Biden following the 2020 election. Pence refused to follow through, upholding the election results on Jan. 6, 2021.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he was ready to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss the war in Ukraine, which he said might not have started had Trump not lost the “stolen” 2020 election.

“It’s certainly better that we meet and, based on current realities, discuss calmly all areas of interest to both the U.S. and Russia,” Putin said during an interview with state TV journalist Pavel Zarubin.

“We’re ready,” Putin said, adding that he and Trump might find “common ground” on addressing strategic security and economic issues.

Donald Trump made several false and misleading claims in his first address after being sworn in for a second term as president, some of which go as far back as his first time in office.

They included claims about immigration, the economy, electric vehicles and the Panama Canal, and were followed by yet more dubious statements as he delivered remarks at the US Capitol's Emancipation Hall, such as misleading allegations about the pardons made by President Joe Biden as he left office.

Here's a summary of some of the most egregious claims.

President Donald Trump made only a smattering of false claims in his inaugural address on Monday, mostly sticking to vague rhetoric, subjective assertions and uncheckable promises of action.

But then he embarked on a lying spree.

President Donald Trump took his second oath of office Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, offering an agenda heavily foreshadowed by his campaign promises.

Speaking from inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda because of the subfreezing temperatures, Trump said, "The golden age of America begins right now."

Attorneys for Donald Trump have asked attorney general Merrick Garland to stop special counsel Jack Smith from completing his report detailing his investigations of the president-elect. Should Garland decline to do that, they propose that the decision to release the report be made by whoever becomes attorney general when Trump takes office.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed that a Georgia appeals court’s decision to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from his 2020 election interference case in the state signals that the lawsuit is “entirely dead.”

An Arizona Republican who falsely claimed to be a legitimate presidential elector for former President Donald Trump — part of a sweeping effort by Trump and his allies to subvert the 2020 election — has pleaded guilty for her role in the scheme.

Jenna Ellis, a one-time attorney for former President Trump, has agreed to testify against her co-defendants in the Arizona fake electors case in exchange for the state Attorney General's Office dropping charges against her.

Why it matters: Ellis is the first of 18 defendants in the alleged plot to overturn Arizona's 2020 presidential election results to cooperate with the state AG's office.