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FILE - This Aug. 26, 2020 file photo shows the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. Inmates on federal death row tell The Associated Press that a leading topic of conversation through airducts they use to communicate is whether President Joe Biden will keep a campaign pledge to halt federal executions. Biden hasn’t spoken publicly to that question since taking office four days after the Trump administration executed the last of 13 inmates at the Terre Haute prison where federal death row is located. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
On federal death row, inmates talk about Biden, executions

By Michael Tarm Mar. 22, 2021 06:04 AM EDT

Christina Bollo of Urbana, Illinois, holds a sign as she protests the execution of Corey Johnson, near the Federal Correctional Complex, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Terre Haute, Ind. (Joseph C. Garza/The Tribune-Star via AP)
Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty

By Michael Tarm Feb. 07, 2021 07:45 AM EST

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2019 file photo, Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, leaves the federal court following a status conference in Washington. The arrest of President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon adds to a growing list of Trump associates ensnared in legal trouble. They include the president's former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, whom Bannon replaced, his longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, and his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Trump wishes Biden luck without naming him in farewell video

By Jill Colvin And Jonathan Lemire Jan. 19, 2021 05:03 PM EST

FILE - In this Monday, July 1, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter leaves federal court after a motions hearing in San Diego. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Hunter, who was sentenced to 11 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing campaign funds and spending the money on everything from outings with friends to his daughter’s birthday party. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)
A look at pardons, clemency in waning weeks of Trump tenure

By Michael Balsamo Dec. 23, 2020 01:14 AM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters as he leaves the courthouse after a pretrial hearing in his insider-trading case, in New York. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Collins. Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump to be president, was sentenced to two years and two months in federal prison after admitting he helped his son and others dodge $800,000 in stock market losses when he learned that a drug trial by a small pharmaceutical company had failed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
A look at pardons, clemency in waning weeks of Trump tenure

By Michael Balsamo Dec. 22, 2020 09:04 PM EST

Actress Daisy Edgar Jones poses for portraits in a north London park, London, Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020. Jones has been named one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2020. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Daisy Edgar-Jones helps connect

By Louise Dixon Dec. 16, 2020 10:03 AM EST

Protesters line Prairieton Road across from the Federal Execution Chamber, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Terre Haute, Ind. The execution Brandon Bernard, convicted in the 1999 killing of two youth ministers in Texas is scheduled Thursday at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.. (Austen Leake/The Tribune-Star via AP)
US carries out rare execution during presidential transition

By Michael Tarm Dec. 09, 2020 11:44 PM EST

This August 2016 photo provided by the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington shows Brandon Bernard. The Trump administration on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, is poised to begin an unprecedented number of executions in the run-up to Joe Biden's inauguration by putting to death. Bernard, a former Texas street-gang member for a 1999 slaying of a young religious couple from Iowa during which he burned their car with their bodies in the trunk. (Stacey Brownstein/Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington via AP)
US set to execute 1st of 5 inmates before Biden inauguration

By Michael Tarm Dec. 09, 2020 06:17 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2019, file photo, Khloe Kardashian watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers in Los Angeles. Kardashian says she had tested positive for the coronavirus. The reality star confirmed her previous diagnosis in a Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, sneak peek clip of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” The bedridden Kardashian spoke in the video with a hoarse voice. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Khloe Kardashian confirms she had coronavirus in video

Oct. 28, 2020 09:24 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2020, file photo, police aim weapons on demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd, in Los Angeles. Police unions and other law enforcement organizations went into overdrive in the final days of the Legislature's annual session, thwarting a bill that would have added California to the majority of states that can end the careers of officers with troubled histories. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)
Police help defeat California bill on removing problem cops

By Don Thompson Sep. 01, 2020 07:53 PM EDT

File -Police officers fire rubber bullets during a protest over the death of George Floyd Friday, May 29, 2020, in Los Angeles. Supporters of legislation allowing for "bad officers" to be permanently stripped of their badges were twisting arms and calling out opponents on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, as they struggled for votes on one of the year's top policing reform bills. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)
California bill to strip badges from 'bad officers' fails

By Don Thompson Aug. 31, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

In this image from video, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to President Donald Trump speaks from New York, during the fourth night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via AP)
The Latest: GOP convention wraps up with opera, fireworks

Aug. 27, 2020 03:10 PM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump speak at the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Trump has popped up multiple times during this week's Republican National Convention but his big moment is scheduled for Thursday night when he is to make his case for another four years in the White House. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
WHAT TO WATCH: Trump's moment, Ivanka and Rudy Giuliani

By Michelle L. Price Aug. 27, 2020 12:23 AM EDT

President Donald Trump arrives to speak to a crowd of supporters at Mariotti Building Products in Old Forge, Pa. on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. (Christopher Dolan / The Times-Tribune via AP)
Trump's vision of American greatness at center of convention

By Zeke Miller Aug. 22, 2020 10:02 PM EDT

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By The Associated Press Aug. 19, 2020 09:25 AM EDT
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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2019, file photo, Roger Stone, and his wife Nydia, arrive at federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/Al Drago, File)
Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone's prison sentence

By Jill Colvin And Eric Tucker Jul. 11, 2020 10:23 AM EDT

FILE- In this March 29, 2017, file photo, Shari Redstone attends the premiere of "Ghost in the Shell" at AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York. Israel says it is deporting the son of American media magnate Shari Redstone for violating the country’s coronavirus quarantine rules while paying a secret visit to his model girlfriend. Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority said Sunday, June 14, 2020 it had granted Brandon Korff an exceptional permit to enter the country last week to visit his brother, who is serving in the Israeli military. It said Korff “violated the isolation orders. It said Korff was ordered to leave the country immediately.(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Israel deports US billionaire's son for breaking virus rules

Jun. 14, 2020 01:32 PM EDT

Shown is a portion of a Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Borrower Application Form, Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in Washington. The Paycheck Protection was supposed to be a lifeline for small businesses, helping them stay afloat and keep their employees on the payroll during the coronavirus pandemic. But guidelines from the Small Business Administration say that businesses are ineligible if someone who owns at least 20 percent of the company is incarcerated, under indictment, on probation or parole or had been convicted of a felony within the last five years. Ineligible would-be applicants and advocates say the restrictions are a slap in the face for those who have served their time, especially from an administration that has trumpeted second chances. (AP Photo/Wayne Partlow)
Criminal records keep small-business owners from aid program

By Jill Colvin Apr. 21, 2020 12:57 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 1, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump, left, listens as former prisoner Alice Marie Johnson, right, speaks at the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The 64-year-old African American great-grandmother spent 21 years in prison for a nonviolent drug offense before Trump commuted her sentence in 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Trump team targets Democratic advantage with people of color

By Steve Peoples Apr. 18, 2020 08:58 AM EDT