A drug kingpin.What do they have in common?They are among the Americans convicted of crimes who have received pardons from President Donald Trump since he took office in January.And while US ...

The next day, Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who had been serving a life sentence for running the "Silk Road" online ...

A collection of Confederate generals, including Jefferson Davis, composed by the United States between 1861 and 1865, who ...

Trump issues pardons to allies, prominent public figures and others convicted of defrauding the public, rising criticism over political motives.

Diddy is in the middle of his trial, charged with racketeering and other federal offenses. But that could end if President ...

A governor who resigned amid a corruption scandal and served two stints in federal prison. A New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction and who ...

As President Donald Trump’s interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin was remarkably blunt about intermingling Trump’s political goals with the ostensibly independent actions of the ...

revisits Watergate and Gerald Ford’s ensuing pardon of Richard Nixon to delve into these contentious questions. Although it surveys well-covered territory, Toobin’s thought-provoking and ...

Gerald Ford. Toobin’s thesis is brashly revisionist; Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon has gone down in history as a great act of beneficence. According to conventional wisdom, by immunizing ...

There is some precedent. In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, following Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal. However, Nixon had not been charged or ...

I remember how I felt when President Gerald Ford pardoned former President Richard Nixon in 1974, nearly a month after Nixon resigned in disgrace. I understood his reasoning but disagreed with the ...

The most famous case is likely when President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, after the latter resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal in 1974. Ford pardoned Nixon ...