143 get pardons, clemency in Trump`s final hours
(World News USA)

President Donald Trump pardoned former chief strategist Steve Bannon as part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of his White House term that benefited more than 140 people, including rap performers, ex-members of Congress and other allies of him and his family. The last-minute clemency, announced Wednesday morning, follows separate waves of pardons over the last month for Trump associates convicted in the FBI`s Russia investigation as well as for the father of his son-in-law. Taken together, the actions underscore the president`s willingness, all the way through his four years in the White House, to flex his constitutional powers in ways that defy convention and explicitly aid...