President Donald Trump granted pardons on his first day in office to hundreds of criminal defendants, but he left out anti-abortion protesters who were charged with Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act violations,

President Joe Biden's last-minute clemency action helped his businessman brother James Biden and political adviser sister Valerie Biden.

Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.

Donald Trump was sworn in yesterday as the 47th President of the United States. From this moment on, America's decline is over. For more from Inauguration Day, I caught up with USA TODAY chief political correspondent Phillip M. Bailey. Phillip, thank you so much for hopping on during this big, big week in Washington. Phillip M. Bailey:

Mark Milley and the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. As Trump stepped in, one of his first actions back in the White House was to pardon those involved in the U.S. Capitol riots.

Many Republicans on Capitol Hill do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the