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"It is fair to say two things," said P.S. Ruckman Jr., who teaches at Rock Valley College in Rockville, Ill. "One is (Obama) is definitely being exceptionally stingy. There’s no doubt about that. There’s also no doubt that this is in a way unexpected."

What everyone’s talking about: Anderson traveled to the Syria-Turkey border earlier this week to visit a refugee camp housing Syrians who fled across the border to escape the violence in their country. Families showed him pictures of their dead children, grandchildren, brothers, fathers, mothers, uncles - the list goes on. There have been more than [...]

President Barack Obama is on track to be one of the least forgiving of presidents in U.S. history — as measured by his use of presidential pardon powers, according to a political science professor who blogs about clemency exercised by presidents and governors.

A federal lawsuit claims the city of New York violated the Constitution by raiding an Occupy Wall Street site last year, destroying the so-called "People's Library" and taking its 3,600 books.

A Texas activist launches campaign to win a presidential pardon of celebrated American writer O. Henry, who died in 1947 under the cloud of a conviction for embezzling.

Linda Aaron has watched through prison bars as her son grew from young to middle-aged, marking the days of a life sentence that even the sentencing judge now believes is too harsh.

The 2012 presidential election is an interesting one for us Jews. Do we pressure the candidate who belongs to a faith that seemingly enjoys baptizing our dead — Mitt Romney?

A chapter of the South's desegregation struggle was resurrected Thursday as members of the 1970s group known as the Wilmington 10 requested pardons from North Carolina's governor, nearly 40 years after their trials.

A Texas activist wants big changes in the way the criminal justice system works, but he’s launching his campaign with a goal that he thinks should be easy for people to agree on — the presidential pardon of celebrated American writer O. Henry, 102 years after his dea …

*House Majority leader John Boehner’s “green light” to the GOP controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to consider a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder is just the latest in the continuing dance of political gamesmanship the GOP is playing with President Obama. That’s right Obama. The ostensible issue is that [...]