There have been many attempts to be re-elected later, but only one was successful. Grover Cleveland was the only US President to serve 2 non-consecutive terms. Grover Clevelandcame to power on March 4th, 1885, and served his full four-year term until 1889. He lost the bid for re-electi...
Trump tells reporters at the White House that those he pardoned have already served years in prison. And he claims murderers often aren’t charged for their crimes. “We pardoned people who were treated unbelievably poorly,” he said. Trump pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to...
About 1.3 million active-duty personnel serve in the U.S. military, Department of Defense data shows. While transgender rights advocates say as many as 15,000 service members are transgender, U.S. officials say the number is in the low thousands. There is no data that tracks transgen...
In 2020, Trump issued a full pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, whose sentence he hadcommuted in 2018after lobbying from Kim Kardashian. Johnson is a great-grandmother who had served 22 years in federal prison for what was a first-time criminal offense, which had come to Kardashian's attention...
Lopresti, who also served in the UK Army Reserve as a corporal, told The Independent: "I did apply to join the legion in November. It took a while to find the best unit to utilise my experience and skills.” He is not in a frontline infantry unit but is carrying out suppor...
8, which served as the country's soft introduction to the story of the first female African- and Indian-American to eye the presidency. Then came the formality of declaring on morning television on Martin Luther King Jr. day, a clear nod to the historical facet of her candidacy. Six d...
In addition to Johnson, Clinton and Trump, only one other U.S. president has faced formal impeachment inquiries in the House of Representatives:Richard Nixon. Many other presidents have been threatened with impeachment by political foes without gaining any real traction in Congress. ...
Trump has signed an executive order beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. It was the second time in less than five years that he’s ordered the country to withdraw from the organization, despite it being a move many scientists fear could roll back...
189 were pardoned by President George W. Bush; and 396 received a pardon from President Clinton, according to Justice Department data. Unlike Mr. Trump, however, each of them had eight years to grant pardons, not four. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served three terms, granted more pardons than...
Trump era. President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral mandate gives him considerable leverage when he is in office to implement his “America First” policies. Officials in capitals around the globe are now trying to game out what will change once Trump is inaugurated. On the face of it, ...