President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any president, the ...

(CNN) -- President Barack Obama granted 330 commutations, the White House announced Thursday, the most commutations given in a single day by a US president. The announcement comes within 24 hours of ...

Series: Presidential Pardons: White criminals seeking presidential pardons are nearly four times as likely to succeed as people of color, a ProPublica examination has found. Update, Dec. 18, 2014: ...

WASHINGTON — A Justice Department push to shorten long drug sentences through President Obama 's clemency powers has gotten off to a slow start: Obama has commuted the sentences of just two of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a ...

While Obama may be stuck riding out the remainder of his presidency as a lame duck, there are still some things within his power. Obama exercised that power today by granting an unprecedented number ...

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentence of 153 others convicted of federal crimes, the greatest number of individual clemencies in a single day by any ...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama granted clemency to Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, allowing the transgender Army intelligence officer convicted of leaking more than 700,000 U.S. documents to go free ...