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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

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US President Joe Biden, right, and first lady Jill Biden stand before greeting President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump upon arriving at the White House, January 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 20, 2025, 6:40 pm
In final hours of presidency, Biden issues pardons to ward off potential Trump ‘revenge’
Outgoing US president preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, House committee members who investigated 2021 Capitol riot — none of whom have yet been probed
By Colleen Long and Zeke Miller
US President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Conference on Women's Health Research from the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 11, 2024. (AP/Susan Walsh)
December 13, 2024, 8:49 am
Biden grants clemency to 1,500 people, pardons 39: ‘The most ever in a single day’
All had been placed on home confinement during pandemic, White House says; move comes after outgoing president was excoriated on both sides of the aisle for pardoning son Hunter
By Danny Kemp
US President Joe Biden, left, greets his son Hunter Biden after addressing Americans from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his Democratic presidential reelection bid, as first lady Jill Biden watches. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
December 2, 2024, 6:54 am
Biden pardons his son Hunter, breaking repeated public pledges not to do so
Move comes weeks before sentencing over gun and tax offenses, and after US president vowed to restore norms following Trump’s term; president-elect decries ‘miscarriage of Justice’
By Zeke Miller, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Colleen Long
A home in Ashkelon damaged by a rocket fired by terrorists from the Gaza Strip, October 7, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)
December 18, 2023, 11:12 pm
President Herzog launches debt clemency scheme for war-affected Israelis
The plan, announced together with Justice Minister Levin, is being introduced to pardon monetary fines for war-affected families who face severe financial hardship
By Sharon Wrobel
Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein (Longview News-Journal screenshot)
July 21, 2023, 1:18 am
A Trump-pardoned criminal and an Israeli among 5 charged in $35m. wire fraud scheme
Eli Weinstein from New Jersey was previously imprisoned for conning clients out of $230m. before having his sentence commuted on president’s penultimate day in office
By AP
US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on Oct. 6, 2022, to travel to Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
October 6, 2022, 11:47 pm
Biden announces pardons for thousands convicted of federal marijuana possession
US president also urges governors to extend clemency to far more people who have run afoul of state laws criminalizing pot possession
By AFP
Iranian worshippers take part in the morning prayer ceremony for Eid al-Adha, celebrated by Muslims worldwide, at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Mosalla mosque, on July 10, 2022. (AFP)
July 17, 2022, 7:12 pm
Iran pardons, commutes sentences for 2,200 convicts to mark Muslim holidays
Supreme leader Khamenei ‘granted pardons or commuted the sentences of 2,272 convicts’ for the Eid al-Adha and Ghadir religious holidays
By AFP
Roger Stone arrives at Federal Court for the second day of jury selection for his federal trial, in Washington, November 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
March 6, 2022, 1:23 pm
Ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone suggested Jared Kushner ‘needs to have a beating’
Political consultant was recorded by Danish documentarians threatening Trump’s son-in-law over nixed pardon requests on Biden’s inauguration day, insisting he was ‘not joking’
By Ron Kampeas
Miami Mayor Daniella Levine Cava pardoned piglets Manchita, David, Shlomo and Sakura at a ceremony Tuesday. (Daniella Levine Cava via JTA)
December 15, 2021, 9:21 pm
Christmas pigs raised by Jewish farmers get pardon
Shlomo, Manchita, Sakura and David given new lease on life Tuesday in pig-pardoning ceremony led by Jewish Miami mayor
By Shira Hanau
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 5, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
July 7, 2021, 6:04 am
Rivlin’s record-breaking presidency in numbers
More pardons (1,830), more criminal records canceled (1,365), more elections (5), and more meeting-hours to discuss forming coalitions (47) than predecessors
By Stuart Winer
Then-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, flanked by his wife Nancy, announces he will not seek reelection during a news conference in San Marcos, California, July 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, Files)
January 21, 2021, 9:58 am
Trump pardoning spree a windfall for well-connected fraudsters
Outgoing US president uses his powers to set free 143 people, including some whose swindles and public corruption made them unlikely candidates for executive clemency
By Eric Tucker
New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner, center, CEO Joseph Meyer, left, and editor Ken Kurson attend The New York Observer's 25th anniversary party at The Four Seasons Restaurant on March 14, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
January 21, 2021, 2:44 am
More than a dozen Jews, but no Sheldon Silver, among Trump’s last-minute pardons
Jews who made the cut included several whose crimes affected Jewish communities or who had support of Aleph Institute, an organization that works with Jews who are incarcerated
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Aviem Sella giving a lecture in Herzliya in 2012. (Screenshot: YouTube)
January 20, 2021, 10:01 am
At Israel’s request, Trump pardons Israeli handler of spy Jonathan Pollard
Aviem Sella one of 73 people granted clemency; 70 have sentences commuted; list doesn’t include Trump or family; several Jewish convicts pardoned, incl. Lakewood Ponzi schemer
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, left, congratulates then senior counselor to the president Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
January 20, 2021, 7:42 am
Trump pardons former strategist Steve Bannon
Former Breitbart chief has been charged with duping thousands of investors, pocketing funds donated toward building a wall along Mexico border
By ToI Staff and AP
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arriving at the courthouse in New York, Nov. 24, 2015. (Seth Wenig/AP Images)
January 19, 2021, 5:45 am
Trump expected to commute sentence of disgraced NY power broker Sheldon Silver
New York Times reports former speaker of State Assembly is among 60-100 people who will receive pardons on president’s last day in office
By Ron Kampeas
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