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Democrats are calling on President Obama to pardon illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children in order to protect them from deportation under President-elect Donald Trump.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who is accused of deserting his Army outpost and was taken prisoner by the Taliban for five years before being freed in exchange for five Taliban prisoners, has requested a pardon from President Obama.

President Barack Obama pardoned a turkey Wednesday afternoon, wishing all Americans a Happy Thanksgiving.

On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked Professor John Banzhaf of George Washington University Law School about the possibility that outgoing President Barack Obama – or maybe even incoming President Donald Trump – might pardon Hillary Clinton for the various offenses that have been investigated by the FBI, and could conceivably be reviewed by a special prosecutor in the future.

The big push accompanying Oliver Stone’s new biopic to pardon Edward Snowden doesn’t appear to be moving the White House.

Clinton is still the favorite to win in November, but mounting scandals will follow her to the White House — unless President Barack Obama pardons her, which looks both necessary and likely.

Obama is exercising his constitutional clemency power on a scale larger than any president has done in more than a century.

Appearing on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily, Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney said he was an “admirer of Mike Flynn’s,” but judged that his speech at the Republican National Convention “wasn’t his best speech, and it was a difficult circumstance in which to provide it, after Mrs. Trump’s appearance.”

A pair of petitions calling for the release of Steven Avery, subject of Netflix’s new true crime series “Making a Murderer,” from prison have garnered nearly 200,000 signatures from fans who believe the man was wrongly convicted of murder.

Robert Downey, Jr. received an official pardon from California Gov. Jerry Brown on Christmas Eve for his 1996 drug conviction in the state.

On September 6, U.S. Marine Joshua Velez visited his brother in New Bergen, New Jersey, and was arrested for possession of a lawfully purchased 9mm handgun and hollow-point bullets.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed pardons for 10,000 former juvenile offenders in order, he says, to allow them to leave their past off applications for employment and credit.

After officially kicking off the Jubilee Year Tuesday, Pope Francis addressed crowds on Wednesday, telling them that the purpose of a Holy Year is to “live mercy” and that what God likes best is “forgiving his children.”

According to a new poll, only 33% of Americans would support a presidential pardon for rogue National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who faces espionage charges. Of the poll respondents, 53% support these charges, while only 26% were opposed to a federal prosecution.

“I believe that at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance,” he said, suggesting that a life sentence for non-violent drug offenders were “not hardened criminals” and didn’t deserve overly harsh prison sentences.

Benedict Cumberbatch and comedian Stephen Fry have united to seek a royal pardon for 49,000 British men who were persecuted in the 1950s for being gay, along with Enigma code breaker Alan Turing.

A former Massachusetts prosecutor, who once secured a civil rights injunction against Mark Wahlberg, says the actor shouldn’t be pardoned for attacking two Asian men in his youth.

California Governor Jerry Brown had a slight hitch issuing his traditional Christmas Eve pardons this year: he had to rescind one of the 105 pardons only hours after he issued it.