Some years ago my granddaughter wrote a letter to the president asking him to take care of our environment. The White House was so impressed they invited our family to the annual Easter Egg Hunt.

Illinois corruption takes center stage as Michael Madigan is convicted of bribery and Rod Blagojevich gets a pardon. Plus, why a project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes is on hold.

A top Trump appointee guided Mr. Adams’s legal team as they crafted an argument for dismissing corruption charges against the ...

President Donald Trump’s series of executive actions since returning to the White House last month – from pardons of violent ...

Federal prosecutors on Friday formally asked a judge to drop bribery charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, after a ...

Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison in Colorado in February 2020, 16 months after former President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois Gov. Nearly five years ...

U.S. presidents have the constitutional power to exercise leniency toward people who have committed federal crimes through ...

Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, submitted her resignation Thursday, ...

The police officer who shot and killed a protester during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was not pardoned by former ...

Have you ever thought about the power of the presidential pardon? Until the recent pardons from Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I really did not question this power in which total control is given to the ...

Jim Guy Tucker, whose tumultuous 30-year career in politics included terms as a prosecuting attorney, attorney general, ...

GREEN BAY - A Pulaski man sentenced to over three years in prison, then pardoned, for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was convicted of a misdemeanor theft charge weeks ...