R&B singer R. Kelly has officially asked President Donald Trump to end his 30-year prison sentence for sex crimes. The disgraced 59-year-old music artist, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted of federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges in New York in September 2021. After years in prison, Kelly’s attorneys have submitted a request for a commutation of his sentence to the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, which was made public this week. The request, which was first reported by the Chicago Tribune, remains pending. A White House official told The Independent that the request appears...