The News Roundup For November 22, 2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump during a round of golf at his Turnberry course in Turnberry, Scotland. Robert Perry/Getty Images hide caption
Former U.S. President Donald Trump during a round of golf at his Turnberry course in Turnberry, Scotland.
Robert Perry/Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump signaled this week he intends to make good on his campaign promise to use the military and a declaration of national emergency to carry out mass deportations.
Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz announced he is withdrawing from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general. And the Senate isn't paving the way for Trump to fill his administration with loyalists.
Reporting indicates New York prosecutors are open to the possibility of pushing Trump's sentencing in his hush money case to 2029 when his second term in the White House will end.
Also this week, it's been more than 1,000 days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This week the Biden administration made a two major U-turns on Ukraine's military aid policy – allowing missiles to be used in Russia territory and a decision to supply Zelenskyy with landmines. Both decisions that have put pressure on the European Union.
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a new nuclear doctrine that lowered his bar for using nuclear weapons.
And in Gaza, eyewitness accounts indicate that the Israeli military has deployed so-called sniper drones that have guns attached and can shoot people remotely.
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