In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison.

His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.

Donald Trump has a day-one plan to punish the 51 intelligence officials who deemed the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation."

Trump plans to suspend security clearances of former intelligence officials who wrote an infamous letter about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

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.

Washington optimistic on chances of closing agreement to release Israelis held by Hamas before end of Biden's term; Netanyahu huddles with security chiefs to discuss negotiations

Aafia Siddiqui's lawyer has submitted a dossier to outgoing president Joe Biden in the hope he will pardon her for what he says is a blatant miscarriage of justice. She was jailed in 2010 for attempting to murder an FBI agent in Afghanistan.

Emails from the device, which was left at a Delaware computer shop, showed that the younger Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy ...

That is just what President Donald Trump did in an executive order signed on Inauguration Day, yanking the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter that helped to silence the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 election.

In the run up to the 2020 Presidential elections, these intelligence officials had claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop bore ‘the classic earmarks’ of Russian disinformation

While Biden tactfully communicated a fundamental truth and core party principle that’s been often overlooked, many felt that Biden delivering the message in the last gasps of his presidency was emblematic of his time in office: far too little, far too late.