President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 convicted criminals — setting a new record for most individual pardons and commutations ever issued by a president.

The action, aimed at inmates who received harsher sentences based on old disparities in drug laws, is the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by a U.S. president.

according to the Justice Department. The law imposed an automatic five-year sentence for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine, while 500 grams of powder cocaine carried the same penalty.

The president said that with Friday's action he has "now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history."

In a final report on his investigation, special counsel David Weiss said President Biden's criticism "undermines the very foundation of what makes America's justice system fair and equitable."

(CNN) — President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in his final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.

Trump is suggesting he would like to see investigations into former President Joe Biden. Trump is the first president to be convicted of a felony — in a case relating to business records of hush money payments — and had faced criminal charges over his role in

Coughenour began blistering him with questions, calling the executive order “blatantly unconstitutional.” Coughenour went on to temporarily block it pending further arguments. Here are some things to know about the decision and the lawsuits challenging Trump's order.

China’s Lunar New Year travel rush has kicked into high gear, with billions of trips expected in coming days for the peak of the 40-day annual mass migration — the world's biggest annual movement of humanity.

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a requirement that owners of millions of small businesses register with an arm of the Treasury Department charged with fighting money

White House staff secretary Will Scharf has been a prominent part of the tableau, standing at Trump's side and teeing up the leather-bound folders, one by one, for the president. With the cameras rolling, Scharf provides running narration on what Trump is signing, at times leaning into a nearby microphone at the president's direction.

Jury seated at Los Angeles trial of rapper A$AP Rocky on felony charges he fired a gun at a former friend in 2021.