Trump Gives Clemency to More Allies, Including Manafort, Stone and Charles Kushner
Thursday, December 24, 2020 | |
| By Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane, Astead W. Herndon and Maggie Haberman From the campaign trail in Georgia to Capitol Hill, President Trump's demand for changes to the $900 billion pandemic relief plan upended political and economic calculations. | | | By Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt It was the second wave of pardons and commutations by the president in two days, showing his willingness to use his power aggressively on behalf of loyalists. | | | WHITE HOUSE memo By Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt President Trump remains the most powerful man in the world, but powerless to achieve what he most wants: to avoid leaving office as a loser. | | |
| Movies | The Projectionist By Kyle Buchanan The actress delivered the performance of her career in the dark comedy "Promising Young Woman." Then came those with their tired views of women. | | | Opinion By Kim Brooks If the pandemic undid three decades of progress on gender equality, one has to wonder: How real was that progress in the first place? | | |
| By Reuters In Britain, about 4,000 truck drivers were stuck along roads near the southeastern English port in Dover after a 48-hour shutdown to prevent the spread of a variant of the coronavirus. Truckers who want to travel to France must show proof of a negative virus test. | | | By Reuters President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced Miguel A. Cardona as his nominee to serve as education secretary. Dr. Cardona, a product of the public school system, grew up in public housing and currently serves as Connecticut's schools chief. | | | By Reuters On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York cautioned that all travelers to the city from the United Kingdom would be receive an order to quarantine, and could face fines of $1,000 a day for failing to do so. | | |
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