President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the ...

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

President Biden's final list of commutations was released Friday afternoon, laying out the names and registration numbers of ...

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who headed Congress’s special investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol ...

Rep. Bennie Thompson told CBS News, "When I hear someone about to be sworn into the presidency of the United States say he ...

President-elect Donald Trump has previously said that Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) should be jailed for his work on the now ...

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the ...

Mr. Biden's pardons in recent days come after the president made the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in ...

President Joe Biden announced a series of last-minute pardons on Sunday, granting clemency to five individuals, including a ...

President Joe Biden pardoned five activists and public servants Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to Civil ...

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison on a drug-related offense.

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that ...