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Joe Biden with his son Hunter Biden
White House defends pardon of Hunter Biden amid backlash
WASHINGTON — The White House has defended President Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter, after repeatedly insisting he had no plans to grant such executive clemency.The press secretary said Biden had pardoned his son, who was facing sentencing later this month in two federal cases, to shield him from potential persecution by the outgoing president's political foes.The sweeping pardon covers any potential federal crimes that 54-year-old Hunter may have committed over the course of a decade.Republicans have lambasted the move, with President-elect Donald Trump calling it "an abuse and miscarriage of justice".Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday that Biden had "wrestled" over the decision during the family's Thanksgiving break on the...
December 03, 2024

White House defends pardon of Hunter Biden amid backlash

Joe and Hunter Biden
Joe Biden issues presidential pardon for son Hunter in final weeks in White House
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing him a possible prison sentence for federal gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members.The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after his convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California.The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges and less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.It caps a long-running legal saga for the younger Biden, who publicly disclosed he was under federal investigation in December 2020 - a...
December 02, 2024

Joe Biden issues presidential pardon for son Hunter in final weeks in White House

A so-called migrant caravan advances to the US through Huehuetan, southern Mexico, last week
Mexico leader responds to Trump claim she agreed to stop migration
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has appeared to contradict President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that the two have struck a deal to stop migration to the US border.After a phone call on Wednesday, Trump posted online: “She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border.”Sheinbaum responded quickly that she had reiterated Mexico's position was not to close borders, but to address migration while respecting human rights.On Monday, Trump alarmed US trading partners as he vowed upon taking office in January to slap an across-the-board tariff of 25% on Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff on China.He said the import duties on Mexico and Canada would only be removed once illegal immigration and drug...
November 28, 2024

Mexico leader responds to Trump claim she agreed to stop migration

Lori Chavez-Deremer, Lee Zeldin and Elise Stefanik were among those threatened
Bomb threats made against Trump cabinet nominees
WASHINGTON — Several of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees and picks for his White House team have been targeted by bomb threats.The FBI said it was aware of "numerous bomb threats" as well as "swatting incidents", in which hoax calls are made to attract a police response to the target's home.Threats were made against Trump's choices to lead the departments of Housing, Agriculture and Labor, as well as his pick for US ambassador to the United Nations.Police are investigating the incidents, which happened on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Trump's transition team, said the Trump appointees “were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them”.She said that several people had...
November 28, 2024

Bomb threats made against Trump cabinet nominees

Undated photos of Kai Li, Mark Swidan and John Leung
Three Americans released in US-China prisoner exchange
WASHINGTON — Three Americans detained in China were released after the Biden administration negotiated a prisoner swap.Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung are on their way back to the US, a spokesperson for the National Security Council (NSC) said in a statement on Wednesday."Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years," the statement said.The exchange was reportedly months in the making, and included the release of at least one Chinese citizen in US custody.President Biden raised the issue of Americans wrongfully detained in China directly with President Xi Jinping earlier this month when the two met during the Apec summit in Peru, according to an American official familiar with the negotiations. National Security Advisor Jake...
November 28, 2024

Three Americans released in US-China prisoner exchange

Sam Benastick is an avid hiker
Missing hiker found alive after more than five weeks in wilderness
VICTORIA — A hiker who was lost in the backwoods of British Columbia for more than five weeks has been found alive.Sam Benastick, 20, was reported missing on 19 October after he failed to return from a 10-day fishing and hiking trip in Redfern-Keily Park in the northern Rocky Mountains.Authorities had called off search and rescue efforts for the avid hiker in late October. Temperatures in the region had at times dropped to around -20C (-4F).Benastick was found on Tuesday by two people headed to the Redfern Lake trail for work, who recognized him as the missing hiker as he walked towards them.Given all the time he was missing, a different outcome had been feared, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl Madonna Saunderson told the BBC on Wednesday."We're very grateful. The family is...
November 28, 2024

Missing hiker found alive after more than five weeks in wilderness

Keith Kellogg
Trump nominates Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia
WASHINGTON — The President-elect announced on Wednesday that he had chosen longtime advisor and highly decorated retired three-star general Keith Kellogg to serve in the role.Posting on Truth Social, his social media platform, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will nominate Keith Kellog, who has long been his advisor on matters of defense, to serve as assistant to the president and special envoy for Ukraine and Russia.In his social media post, Trump said “He was with me right from the beginning! Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!"During Trump's first term in office, the now 80-year-old Kellogg had served as National Security Advisor to then Vice President Mike Pence. He was also chief of staff of the...
November 28, 2024

Trump nominates Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia

Elon Musk
Elon Musk publicizes names of government employees he wants to cut
WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line.Now they have a new fear: becoming the personal targets of the world’s richest man – and his legions of followers.Last week, in the midst of the flurry of his daily missives, Musk reposted two X posts that revealed the names and titles of people holding four relatively obscure climate-related government positions. Each post has been viewed tens of millions of times, and the individuals named have been subjected to a barrage of negative attention. At least one of the four women named has deleted her social media accounts.Although the information he posted on those...
November 28, 2024

Elon Musk publicizes names of government employees he wants to cut

Trump had pleaded not guilty in the case related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss
Judge dismisses special counsel's election case against Trump
NEW YORK — A federal judge has dismissed a major case against Donald Trump that alleged he illegally sought to overturn the 2020 election.Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who brought the criminal case against Trump, had asked to have the charges dropped, citing a Justice Department policy that bans the prosecution of a sitting president.Judge Tanya Chutkan dismissed the case "without prejudice", meaning the charges could be refiled after Trump finishes his second term.Smith has also asked to have his case charging Trump with improperly storing classified documents dismissed. Trump had pleaded not guilty in both cases.“It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal...
November 26, 2024

Judge dismisses special counsel's election case against Trump

President-elect Donald Trump on November 19, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas
Trump ups the ante on tariffs, vowing massive taxes on goods from Mexico, Canada and China 
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China starting on the first day of his administration, a policy that could sharply increase costs for American businesses and consumers.The move, Trump said, will be in retaliation for illegal immigration and “crime and drugs” coming across the border.“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our...
November 26, 2024

Trump ups the ante on tariffs, vowing massive taxes on goods from Mexico, Canada and China 

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