🗞️Biden Steps In On The Death Penalty

December 23, 2024

December 23rd, 2024

Good Evening 🇺🇸,

What happened today,

Biden Commutes Sentences Of 37 Death Row Inmates, Says ‘We Must Stop’ Using Death Penalty At Federal Level

President Joe Biden said, “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/12/23/biden-commutes-sentences-of-37-death-row-inmates-says-we-must-stop-using-death-penalty-at-federal-level

  • President Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death row and converting their punishment to life in prison

  • A woman died after being set on fire inside a NYC subway car in Brooklyn, the suspect was an illegal immigrant that had previously been deported, he has been arrested and charged

  • The House Ethics Committee released the final report on its investigation into sex and drug allegations against former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz saying that he did have sex with an underage woman and paid women for sex. Gaetz challenged the conclusions of a House Ethics Committee investigation, specifically disputing allegations he paid women for sex.

  • Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to state murder and terror charges in the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

  • Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Washington after he developed a fever

  • The U.S. government posted a $367B budget deficit for November, up 17% from a year earlier per the Department of the Treasury

  • The IRS is sending up to $1,400 to 1 million tax filers who qualified for pandemic stimulus checks in 2021, but didn’t claim them per CNBC

  • Nordstrom has agreed to be acquired and taken private by Nordstrom family members and a Mexican retail group in a $6.25 billion deal

  • Apple is working on a new smart doorbell camera that uses Face ID to unlock your door

  • The Starbucks strike has closed almost 60 stores, expanded to 9 states and 12 cities, and is in its fifth day

  • DOW up .16% /S&P up .73%

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