President Biden says he's commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. That gives him the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued.

In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, the bipartisan January 6 th committee, and members of his own family, which Biden said was necessary to prevent retribution from President-elect Donald Trump.