NPR's Steve Inskeep discusses the history of presidential pardons Rachel Barkow, Professor of Law at New York University.

The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political ...

United Statescategory· May 28, 2025 Trump pardons former New York lawmaker Michael Grimm U.S. President Donald Trump signed a full pardon for former U.S. Representative Michael Grimm of New York ...

All were unlikely beneficiaries this week of pardons, with President Donald Trump flexing his executive power to bestow ...

This week alone, Trump granted 19 pardons and eight commutations for various offenses. His clemency actions extended relief ...

President Trump on Friday said he’d consider pardoning embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s currently on trial in the ...

People convicted of murder, various crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, drug trafficking, fraud, violating protections ...

But the pardons announced Wednesday are part of a pattern of clemency grants that began in Trump's first term and has ...

The request comes after Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer last month, and a book was released on the Biden White House's alleged cover-up of his declining mental fitness.

The Cache County, Utah, attorney and sheriff responded to President Donald Trump’s pardon of rapper NBA YoungBoy by saying ...

The IUOE, a powerful construction union, has been a key player on the New York development scene for decades and thus has a ...

A jury convicted Scott Jenkins, the disgraced ex-sheriff of Culpeper County in Virginia, of taking more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for deputizing rich businessmen so they could get out of ...