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On Monday night, in his first official act as president, Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 people for criminal acts committed in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, including Packer, 59, and some other ...

Former Olympic swimmer Klete Keller was among the most high-profile people to face criminal charges for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection. On Monday, he also became one of the nearly 1,600 ...

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Even though President Donald Trump had vowed to deliver pardons to those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the Capitol, his sweeping clemency for roughly 1,500 people was stunning.

Prosecutors alleged he attacked police with an explosive device on Jan. 6. A Florida man who prosecutors alleged attacked police with an explosive device during the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 ...

President Donald Trump is defending one of his most divisive actions since returning to the White House — pardoning nearly everyone convicted in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Trump in a ...

That much was clear Monday night, when Trump made good on his pledge to exonerate the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, the ...

On the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to convey the enormous scope of the law enforcement effort to bring the rioters to justice, calling it ...

But then it’s a shame you don’t hear many, if any, ruing President Trump’s proclamation to pardon unconditionally nearly all of the people who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 ...

Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Some of the highest profile defendants convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot were set free Tuesday, as President Trump’s broad grant of clemency ...