With President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons to more than 1,500 charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach ...

Even some Democrats, including former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr., have plans to ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

David Maraniss, who has spent nearly five decades at the Washington Post, took to social media and bemoaned the fact that his ...

President Donald Trump issues pardons for pro-life activists convicted under the FACE act during former President Joe Biden's ...

Officials involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions say the Trump administration isn't protecting them from threats. "We don't think ...

The brother of Brian Sicknick, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who died days after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on on the Capitol, ...

Usually, whether someone was pardoned for something isn’t a matter of debate. But it’s one of the latest legal questions ...

Presidential pardons began with the George Washington, who pardoned those who participated in the violence known as the Whiskey Rebellion. Long before Jack Sparrow, there was the Caribbean pirate ...

It was just after midnight when a phone call from an unknown number woke Dorine Núñez Ávila.

Pardons were flying all over Washington on Monday like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport. Joe Biden was first, issuing “pre-emptive” pardons to five members of his ...

(Melina Mara /The Washington Post) It’s debatable which president’s abuse of the pardon power on Monday — Joe Biden’s or Donald Trump’s — was more damaging. But that’s the nature of ...