The announcement reiterated sentiments the president-elect expressed on the campaign trail, and further imperiled a deal that had already run into widespread political opposition.
U.S. Steel’s plant in Clairton, Pa. A $15 billion deal in which Japan’s Nippon Steel would acquire the iconic American company has faced wide political opposition.
President Biden is facing criticism for absolving his son after insisting he would not and, according to some critics in his own party, paving the way for Donald Trump’s return to office.
President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter “further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all,” Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado said.
The package, the largest since April, comes amid deep concerns in Ukraine that the Trump administration may cut off aid. The president-elect has vowed to end the war quickly, but has not said how.
Warren Stephens, an investment banker, gave $2 million in 2016 to a group aiming to block Donald J. Trump’s political rise. More recently, he backed Asa Hutchinson, Chris Christie, Mike Pence and Nikki Haley before donating to the Trump campaign.
The threat of a retribution-focused Trump administration and his son’s looming sentencings prompted the president to abandon a promise not to get involved in Hunter Biden’s legal problems.
President Biden was deeply concerned that legal problems would push his son into a relapse after years of sobriety, and he began to realize there might not be any way out beyond issuing a pardon.
President Biden granted blanket clemency to stop his son from being prosecuted by the Trump administration for his foreign business. Experts reached for historical parallels.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. has called for firing the agency’s top officials, shutting down its Washington headquarters and prosecuting journalists.
Snow has been piling up for days around the Great Lakes as temperatures remain bitterly cold in the eastern United States. Another storm system brings the threat of more.
Grounds crew had to blow snow off the field during the N.F.L. game between the Buffalo Bills and the San Francisco 49ers in Orchard Park, N.Y., on Sunday.
In 1973, Joe Biden was with his sons Beau, left, and Hunter in the hospital as they recovered from a car crash that had killed their mother. He was sworn in as a senator there, so they could be with him.
Roger Golubski, who had been accused of raping and terrorizing Black women, was found dead on his back porch on Monday as his federal trial was set to begin.
Roger Golubski had been scheduled to appear in federal court in Topeka, Kan., on Monday for the start of jury selection in his federal trial on six counts of civil rights violations.
Lawmakers in the president’s own party, many of them moderates, said his decision to pardon his son was selfish and would further damage Americans’ waning faith in democracy and the rule of law.
The gun case federal prosecutors brought against Hunter Biden was relatively rare, but the tax charges he pleaded guilty to may have been less unusual.
Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, in early September, leaving a federal courthouse in California where he pleaded guilty to three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses.
The director, Dinesh D’Souza, who is facing a lawsuit over the documentary, admitted that an analysis used to make claims about election fraud that were later debunked had been faulty.
The admission from Dinesh D’Souza follows years of defiance, even as election experts at the state and local levels said that the conclusions in “2000 Mules” were unfounded.
Within a few hours’ drive of Mexico City, these centuries-old estates have become restaurants, museums, hotels and even water parks. In all of them, beauty and history linger.
Hacienda Vista Hermosa, founded in the early 16th century, is now a sprawling hotel.
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