Some fear that Donald Trump may take advantage of Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden. A missing Hawaiian lady has fled the nation, according to Los Angeles police. Additionally, the Oxford University Press announced its word of the year for 2024.
What to know today is as follows.
Hunter Biden pardon gives Trump political cover
Some politicians said they could appreciate President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden, which was a father’s attempt to protect his kid. To put it another way, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville stated that he would also forgive his son if it had happened to him.
Biden’s claimed justification for pardoning Hunter Biden hasn’t struck a chord with as many people.
Biden justified his decision by claiming a miscarriage of justice in his address on Sunday. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, backed Biden yesterday, telling reporters that he thinks Hunter was singled out. Consequently, the president decided that enough was enough and took action. He also thinks that they attempted to break his son in order to break him.
However, several party members and strategists have expressed concern that Biden has given President-elect Donald Trump political license to pursue far-right goals by sparing his son from punishment. They are concerned that Biden and other Democratic leaders would lose some of the moral standing necessary to protest any pardons Trump grants in the future and support his claims that the Department of Justice needs to be cleaned up.
The bad news is that Biden has essentially given legitimacy to these charges against the Justice Department, which will have a lasting impact over the next four years, according to Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis.
According to Ty Cobb, a former special counsel in the Trump White House who is now a critic, Trump would use it as an excuse for any pardons he wants to grant the Jan. 6 offenders. His followers will undoubtedly accept it as an explanation. That is tragic for this nation.
Usually a reliable Biden friend, Democratic Sen. Gary Peters stated, “I think it was wrong what he did.” People’s trust in the Department of Justice and our legal system in general will only be further damaged by it.
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Syria thrust back into civil war as its allies focus on other fronts
In a sudden, lightning-fast onslaught last week, Syrian rebels retook land that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had been regaining for years in a matter of hours. As a long-simmering civil war reemerges, a nation that has been out of the news due to other continuing Middle East wars is now making headlines. Here are a few things we are aware of.
What has taken place:According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in less than a week, rebels led by the terrorist organization Hayat Tahir al-Sham, or HTS, launched an attack that captured Aleppo, the nation’s second-largest city, along with several neighboring provinces. In response, Russian and Syrian fighter jets launched bombings against the areas controlled by the rebels. Although the Observatory said that dozens of civilians were also killed, Assad’s administration claimed to have killed hundreds of terrorists.
Why now?Assad’s victory during the 2011 Arab Spring was aided by Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy located in Lebanon. Syria is in a far weaker position now that all three are either sidetracked or exhausted by the continuous battles, according to a Russia analyst.
Naturally, the offensive has raised a number of concerns, such as where HTS would launch its next attack. Could the United States intervene? The possibility of ISIS regrouping is another factor to take into account, according to researchers.
Congress faces key funding deadline
Congress is under pressure to reach a financial agreement by December 20 in order to prevent a government shutdown. In order to temporarily fund the government, probably through March 2025, Democrats and Republicans are expected to pass a continuing resolution, or CR. Neither party has agreed on how much money will be spent in the upcoming fiscal year, much less how it will be distributed among the many branches of government.
There are a number of elements that affect Republicans. On the one hand, delaying the funding deadline by a few months would give them greater clout in the next year, as the GOP seizes control of the Senate and President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House. It would, however, set a crucial deadline early in Trump’s administration and divert important time from approving new legislation and confirming his appointments. The impending House Speaker vote is another problematic factor.
Missing Hawaii woman went to Mexico, L.A. police say
Police have reclassified the case of Hannah Kobayashi, the 30-year-old Hawaiian woman who was at the heart of a hunt for missing persons in Los Angeles, as one involving a voluntary missing person. Jim McDonnell, the chief of police in Los Angeles, stated at a press conference yesterday that Kobayahsi voluntarily traveled into Mexico from San Diego on November 12, the day before she was reported missing. After looking over Kobayashi’s social media profiles, police think he intended to cut ties.
Kobayashi has every right to leave the country, according to McDonnell, who also advised her to contact her family members because they are concerned. The LAPD would not close the case until they are certain Kobayashi is secure, he stressed.What more do we know?
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Staff Pick: And the Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year is…
Rotten brain. The phrase is probably familiar to you if you spend a lot of time online or if you know a Gen Z or Gen Alpha child. Oxford defines the term (or phrases, if we’re being picky) as the alleged decline of a person’s mental or intellectual state, particularly after consuming excessive amounts of anything unimportant or undemanding. The term refers to the prevalent social media culture and constant online presence, however here’s something interesting I discovered when reading this article: In fact, brain rot was first used in 1854.Elizabeth Robinson, editor of a newsletter
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