The commutations were separate from the over 1,000 people whose sentences the U.S. president commuted on Dec. 12, 2024.

Image President Joe Biden speaks at the Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Ariz. A Commerce Department memo argued that China’s chip expansion posed a threat to chip facilities the U.S. government is investing in.Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York ...

President Joe Biden on Dec. 12 announced a single-day record of 1,499 sentences commuted, along with 39 pardons of nonviolent offenders. Some critics later expressed outrage over what they said was the pardon of Chinese spies and a sex offender.

However, with the downfall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and the catastrophic loss of Hamas and Hezbollah during its war against Israel, Tehran faces mounting geopolitical threats with splintered regional proxies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Biden administration on Monday announced a last-minute trade investigation into Chinese-made "legacy" semiconductors that could heap more U.S. tariffs on chips from China that power everyday goods from autos to washing machines to telecoms gear.

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly every man on federal death row, but Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not included on the list.

The Commerce Department is banning China Telecom in the U.S., a move that appears unlikely to deter Beijing from conducting sophisticated cyberoperations.

A claim that President Joe Biden pardoned two high-ranking Chinese spies and a relative of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official as part of a prisoner swap with China emerged online, sparking controversy over the president's latest round of pardons ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.

As he leaves the White House, President Joe Biden isn’t forgetting Christmas gifts to China. This week he announced new Paris Agreement targets to reduce greenhouse gases and he issued a waiver to California to attempt to do away with the American internal combustion engine.

The Biden administration on Monday announced a last-minute trade investigation into Chinese-made "legacy" semiconductors that could heap more U.S. tariffs on chips from China that power everyday goods from autos to washing machines to telecoms gear.