An attorney for Chelsea Manning expressed his gratitude and excitement following the news that President Obama had commuted the sentence of the former Army soldier. During an interview with MSNBC host ...

President Obama commuted the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders today, including 14 who had been sentenced to life in prison. It was a long-awaited move for a president who before this year ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a ...

Wednesday’s commutations by President Obama, which brings his total number to 562, represent the most granted by a president in a single day since at least 1900, according to the White House blog.