Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

Pete Rose, banned from baseball over gambling violations, is getting a measure of posthumous redemption through a pardon for federal tax evasion.

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy wants a pardon from President Donald Trump. And why not? Isn't everybody these days?

Imagine Chicago and Illinois without an effective local U.S. attorney’s office over the years. Michael Madigan, we believe, still would be Illinois House speaker. Ed Burke likely would be preening ...

Brian Kelsey, a Republican, pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money to his failed campaign for Congress in 2016. He later ...

President Donald Trump’s moves to expand the use of pardons have white-collar defendants jolting to attention — and many are responding with creative maneuvers designed to appeal less to judges or ...

Mayor Daniel Biss celebrated the vote, calling it “a crucial piece of our climate agenda and one of my campaign promises from ...

The pardon by Trump came after the top pardon attorney at the DOJ said she had been fired after restoring the gun rights of ...

Released two weeks into a 21-month prison sentence for a campaign finance conspiracy conviction, a former Tennessee ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.

Payback and projection have long been two of President Trump’s touchstones. He settles scores in return for every perceived ...

In recent weeks, these tensions have risen to levels rarely seen since the Bosnian war ended in 1995. But the western ...