President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes - marking a broad use of the presidential clemency power just weeks from the end of Biden's administration, News.az reports citing foreign media.

US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes, exercising his presidential clemency power in a significant move just weeks before the end of his administration.