Time: Fact-Checking Trump’s 2024 Person of the Year Interview
For the 2024 Person of the Year issue, former and future President Donald Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with TIME on Nov. 25 at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.
TIME has published the transcript of that conversation. In addition, below is a review for facts and context of several of Trump’s statements from the interview.
Did they really give it to him?! (He wanted it so badly.)
Electrek: Tesla is buffing Foundation Series badges off Cybertrucks to sell them as regular trucks
Tesla is turning some of its Foundation Series Cybertrucks into regular Cybertrucks to sell them and sending hundreds of US Cybertrucks to be homologated in Canada as it is having issues selling them in the US.
There have been several signs lately that Tesla has worked through its Cybertruck reservation backlog and it is now having some demand issues.
NYT: Ocean Heat Killed Half the Common Murres Around Alaska
About four million common murres were killed by a domino effect of ecosystem changes, and the population is showing no signs of recovery, according to new research.
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About half of Alaska’s common murres, some four million birds, died as a result of the marine heat wave, the scientists found. They believe it is the largest documented die-off of a single species of wild birds or mammals. The state is home to about a quarter of the world’s common murres, scientists say.
Murres were the victims of a domino effect of oceanic changes tied to the warm water, according to a growing body of research. It affected marine life from plankton to humpback whales. Critically for the murres, it led to a collapse in the fish they depend on.
NYT: John McWhorter: How to Dangerously Misread a Very Important Verdict
Since Monday, when a jury found Daniel Penny not guilty in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway, the conversation has threatened to go off the rails.
Penny was the man who stepped up when Neely caused a commotion on the F train, shouting at passengers, “I’m fed up. I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison. I’m ready to die.” Penny put him in a chokehold and held him for about six minutes. Neely died from compression to his neck, according to the medical examiner.
It should have been a story about the horror of a mentally ill person abandoned by the city and left to fend for himself in subway tunnels or on street corners, or about how scary it can be for those around him to navigate the wreckage, or about how one 24-year-old Marine veteran tried to protect a group of strangers, taking action that ended in unintended tragedy.
Utah News Dispatch: As he leaves office, Romney says GOP policies don’t always align with the working class
When Mitt Romney joined the Senate in 2018, he was mostly seen as a mainstream Republican. Now, with his one and only term coming to an end, the 77-year-old isn’t sure what the future holds for his party.
But he did caution Republicans during a news conference on Friday.
“The Republican Party, made up of working class Americans, and Republican policy positions don’t necessarily line up terribly well,” he said.
Whatever happens with the GOP, don’t expect Romney to be a part of it. His time on the political stage is over, he said on Friday.
Last Updated: 14.Dec.2024 23:58 EST
