🗞️More Biden Pardons and Pepsi Sued

January 17, 2025

January 17th, 2025 

What happened today 🇺🇸 ,

Biden sets presidential pardons, commutations record as he commutes almost 2,500 more sentences

President Biden says he's commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. That gives him the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/biden-presidential-pardons-commutations-record-commutes-2500-more-sentences

  • President Biden announced he is pardoning about 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders, after these latest pardons Biden now has issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in history

  • The U.S. Supreme Court has officially ruled to uphold the TikTok ban and the law banning it will go into effect Sunday if the app is not sold

  • A Florida jury today found that CNN defamed U.S. Navy veteran, Zachary Young, in a 2021 story about profiteering off Afghan refugees trying to flee the country after the U.S. withdrawal, CNN must pay $5 million to Young

  • Trump’s inauguration has been moved inside due to the dangerously cold weather expected in Washington D.C.

  • Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chair of the new Department of Government Efficiency, is reportedly going to announce he will be running for Governor of Ohio soon

  • Ohio Gov. DeWine has appointed his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to the Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance

  • NYC Mayor Eric Adams met with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago today

  • U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it is suing PepsiCo Inc. for engaging in illegal price discrimination by discounting prices for a "large, big box retailer" while increasing prices for competing retailers and customers

  • DOW up .78% / S&P up 1%

  • Former CIA analyst, Asif Rahman, who was arrested in November and charged with leaking highly classified records and showing Israeli plans to launch a retaliatory strike on Iran pleaded guilty today in a federal court in Virginia

  • Israel's security cabinet has recommended approving a ceasefire deal and it was officially approved by the wider government cabinet later in the day, the ceasefire will go into effect Sunday

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