The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as ...

Blagojevich went to prison on charges related to trying to soliciting funds in exchange for former President Barack Obama's Illinois Senate seat.

Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended last July's GOP Convention.

After World War II, the German writer Bertolt Brecht returned to his defeated and broken country. A well-known free thinker, he had fled the Nazi Reich in the 1930s. Brecht soon learned to his great ...