Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two days before President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office, President Joe Biden announced he is commuting nearly 2,500 ...

President Biden announced he's commuting the prison sentences of some 1,500 people and issuing pardons to 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes. That marks the largest number of commutations by a ...

Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the federal Constitution gives the president “Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” In ...

The men said that, by reducing their sentences to life in prison, President Biden’s act of clemency could hurt their appeals. By Michael Levenson Two federal prisoners whose death sentences were ...

President Joe Biden issued a record-breaking wave of commutations and pardons on Thursday, the most ever granted by a president in a single day. In a statement issued by the White House, the ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency ...

President Joe Biden began his fourth-to-last-day in office by announcing the commutations of prison sentences for thousands of nonviolent drug offenders. The presidential action makes Biden the ...

In an unprecedented escalation of state-sanctioned vengeance, the Trump administration has launched a systematic campaign to dismantle the humanitarian protections afforded to 37 federal prisoners ...