BIDEN GRANTS FIRST PARDONS Biden announced today that he granted clemency to 78 individuals, all convicted of low-level drug offenses or nonviolent crimes. Three were pardoned, and 75 received commutations of their sentences. [HuffPost]
3-MONTH-OLD BOY ABDUCTED AS HIS GRANDMOTHER UNLOADS GROCERIES Authorities are searching for a man who kidnapped a 3-month-old baby in the San Francisco Bay area while his grandmother was unloading groceries. The child's mother was at work at the time and the father is incarcerated. [AP]
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS OVER 'REMAIN IN MEXICO' POLICY The Biden administration is seeking the Supreme Court's go-ahead to end the "Remain in Mexico" policy, a controversial Trump-era immigration program that forces some people seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico for their hearings. Texas and Missouri, which sued to keep the program in place, said it has helped reduce the flow of people into the U.S. [AP]
DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WON'T RETURN TO MUSK'S TWITTER Trump, banned from Twitter for inciting violence, told Fox News he won't return to the platform, even if new owner Elon Musk allows him. He plans to stick with his own struggling social media company Truth Social, which he has used once since its launch in February. [HuffPost]
RUINS OF ANCIENT TEMPLE FOR GREEK GOD ZEUS UNEARTHED IN SINAI PENINSULA Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula. The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said the temple ruins were found in the Tell el-Farma archaeological site, which dates back to the late Pharaonic period and was also used during Greco-Roman and Byzantine times. [AP]
SON OF FAMED AMERICAN ARTIST CHARGED IN JAN. 6 CAPITOL RIOT Vincent Gillespie, son of renowned postwar American artist Gregory Gillespie, was among a mob trying to force its way through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. "We were almost overpowering them," Gillespie, blood visible on his scalp from the clash, told AP on that day. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of civil disorder, assaulting officers and disorderly conduct. [AP]
