Opinion: At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and miscarriages of justice. At its worst, this imperial power

It’s a story that happens often in New Jersey politics, where cliques and factions sometimes create toxic environments within one party in control of

The act of clemency puts Trump behind Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman in the ranking for most pardons issued during a modern president’s term, with a couple of notable exceptions.

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the nearly absolute pardon power to be an exception. Alexander Hamilton, for example,

Behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings by the Reagan campaign and Team Trump clinched deals in the eleventh hour, showing Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden in a poor light

In Rudyard Township, in the eastern Upper Peninsula, snowy owls make themselves at home in the winter. The township and the Michigan House passed resolutions calling the township the Snowy Owl Capital of Michigan — they even have a sign, so that makes it pretty official.

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

The new official White House bio for Trump reads more like a campaign pitch. And it opens with a falsehood, claiming he won a "landslide election victory" when in fact his 1.5-point popular vote margin was one of the smallest since the 19th century. https://t.co/F0i6tUnNMm

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

Ever since the second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day — July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — the American presidency has thrown up a goodly number of calendrical coincidences.

As Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the USA we can take comfort in one thing — it’s possible to live to the age of 78 and be vital and healthy. What is Trump’s secret?Some past presidents,

What do George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan have in common? Each would have made a better president for the years 1977-1981 than Jimmy Carter.