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Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents

WASHINGTON — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier's sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of ...

Trump returns to power after unprecedented comeback, emboldened to reshape American institutions

Updated at 6:10 p.m., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, emboldened by his unprecedented political comeback, set to work unraveling Joe Biden 's legacy Monday as soon as he was sworn in as the 47th president, claiming a mandate to reshape American institutions. He began ...

Trump is sentenced in his hush money case, but the judge declines to impose any punishment

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine. The punishment-free ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived ...