In 2017 in the initial days of Donald Trump’s first term, he instituted a government hiring freeze while exempting "essential areas" from the freeze.

The order reverses Biden’s ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Private immigrant detention never stopped and is expected to grow.

He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.

Anti-transgender politicians spent more than $215 million on ads scapegoating trans people and promoting a Project 2025 agenda that threatens to rollback reproductive freedom and punish people for departing from archaic gender roles.

An executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that could have a major impact on transgender people nationwide.

Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.

The Boise resident was one of five Idahoans whose convictions were pardoned. Two other ongoing cases have been dismissed.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin.

With executive orders, Trump pardoned hundreds for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, began his immigration crackdown, and sought to keep TikTok online.

Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of the more than 1,500 people convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The newly sworn-in 47th president signed a document commuting 14 prison sentences and offering “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”