Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon,

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law that would ban the wildly popular social media platform in the United ... Biden signed legislation requiring ByteDance to sell its TikTok assets on national security grounds — the Justice ...

In his final hours as president, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons for House committee members who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the police officers who testified before that committee.

Biden announced today that the Equal Rights Amendment is the "law of the land," but the Justice Department and the national archivist disagree.

In his last day as president, Joe Biden pardoned five members of his extended family, including his two brothers, James Biden and Francis Biden, and his sister Valerie Biden Owens. He also issued pardons to former White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci, who helped coordinate the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Biden administration had extended protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans. The cancellation of the extension could open them up to deportation in the coming months.

It is hard to believe Joe Biden will let his presidency end without pardoning his brother. He has already taken the heat for his son, so why not a little more?

Here are what members of the Obama administration are up to today. Then: Loretta Lynch made history as the first Black woman to serve as the attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. Lynch made police reform a priority of the Department of Justice and fought for LGBTQ+ rights.

House Oversight Chair James Comer is requesting President-elect Trump’s DOJ investigate and prosecute President Biden’s brother, James Biden, for alleged false statements to Congress.

In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, the bipartisan January 6 th committee, and members of his own family, which Biden said was necessary to prevent retribution from President-elect Donald Trump.

Biden’s preemptive pardon to cover up for potential misconduct involving himself is a totally different ballgame, and puts him within the company of President Donald Trump at the end of his first

Illegal crossings at the southern border were lower in December 2024 than in December 2020, Border Patrol data showed.