Mr. Biden emphasized that he did not believe his family did anything wrong, but he feared political attacks by Donald J. Trump.

President Joe Biden's last-minute clemency action helped his businessman brother James Biden and political adviser sister Valerie Biden.

Former Obama aide David Axelrod lashed out at former President Biden for issuing preemptive pardons for his family members minutes before President Trump was sworn in.

President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President-elect Donald Trump and members of his own family, using extraordinary executive prerogative as a shield against revenge by his incoming successor.

Biden issued blanket pardons for his brother James and his wife, Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, and his brother Francis.

RCP's Washington bureau chief Carl Cannon, Monday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, discussed the implications of President Biden pardoning five members of his family on his way out of the White House.

They would no longer have the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment if called to testify in civil, criminal, or congressional proceedings

President Joe Biden pardoned his brother James and other relatives for unspecified crimes, to protect them from Trump administration investigations.

President Biden issued a blanket pardon for his brother James Biden, effectively burying the final details of a more than five-year probe into the first family’s influence peddling to

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned five members of his family, saying he wanted to prevent them from being targeted by "baseless and politically motivated investigations." Those pardoned are his two brothers James and Francis.