Columnist Rich Miller gives his take on the outcome of Mike Madigan's federal trial, just as former Gov. Rod Blagojevich gains attention as a potential U.S. ambassador.

Most folks just figured that Mike Madigan had avoided the long arm of federal law by being extra-careful. And he may have been. But the arrogance of immense power apparently overrode his sense of self ...

Rod Blagojevich was freed from a federal prison in Colorado in February 2020, 16 months after former President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of the former Illinois Gov. Nearly five years ...

The verdict capped an unpredictable four-month trial that gave jurors an up-front and uncensored look at the practice of ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich discusses how it felt receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump on 'The Story.' ...

I support President Trump in many ways,” state Sen. Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) said, “but I don’t think he understands that this just signals that the corruption in Illinois is just accepted, rather than it ...

In a statement, national security adviser Mike Waltz said that President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Rod Blagojevich, former governor of Illinois who served eight years in federal prison. Birth name: Rod Blagojevich (has no middle name, uses the initial R to ...

In the first three weeks of his administration, President Donald Trump moved with haste to dismantle the federal government's public integrity guardrails.

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich received a pardon Monday from President Donald Trump. It comes five years ...

Elon Musk has long railed against the U.S. government, saying a crushing number of federal investigations and safety programs ...