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10 Jul 2018 17:09

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned two cattle ranchers who were convicted of arson on public lands in 2012 and inspired an armed protest in Oregon in 2016, The Associated Press reports. The White House announced that Dwight Hammond and his son Steven Hammond would be granted full presidential clemency and pardoned from their "overzealous" sentencing. The two men, age 76 and 49, were sentenced to five years in prison in 2015, which the White House called "unjust." "The evidence at trial regardin...
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