The pardon of Hernandez is one of dozens issued by the US president over the past year to an array of convicted fraudsters, drug traffickers, tax evaders and unregistered foreign agents that have upended the American justice system and angered many within his own coalition.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins called the latest failure of Trump's revenge cases a " big embarrassment" as the Justice Department failed to re-indict Letitia James.

Businessman Tim Leiweke becomes latest person to benefit from President Donald Trump’s sudden rush to grant clemency orders

The Justice Department announced on Tuesday the arrest of an Afghan national accused of making bomb threats against Americans during a video chat posted online.

Trump administration officials continued over the weekend to hold talks toward securing a deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine. White House special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to meet with the Russian president in Moscow early this week.

The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and planted the president’s name on the organization’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control.

A Department of Justice spokesperson told Newsweek that the agency is “laser focused on rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse.”

Trump said Juan Orlando Hernández was "set up" by the Biden administration. The case against him was rooted in a decade of work by federal officials.

President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, on Dec. 1, claiming without evidence that his prosecution had been a "setup" by the Biden administration and that Hernández was targeted because he was president of a country where drug cartels operated.