WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signaled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. After the leaders’ hastily arranged dinner Friday night at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trudeau spoke of “an excellent conversation” but offered no details. Trump said in a Truth Social post later Saturday that they discussed “many important topics that will require both Countries to work together to address.” Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
Endangered profession When teachers assign homework to students today, they simply get it done through ChatGPT and Google. The only concerns for students are their attendance in class or missing assignment deadlines; beyond that, the teacher does not matter much. With Google and ChatGPT available, students feel there is no need for teachers because the topics are already ‘ready to read’, and Google provides ready-made slides. As we move forward, most tasks will be done by technology, and 40 per cent of jobs are predicted to disappear, with teaching being one of the first professions to be affected. Maria Khushk Hyderabad
Pardon survives as an act of grace, despite all the taints put on it by the powerful down history He said he wouldn’t do it but Biden did it. He has given his son, Hunter, a full pardon. But motivated presidential pardons are not at all new to US. Next up, Trump is likely to pardon those convicted in relation to the Jan 6 attack. Only if he also does a self-pardon will it be a first. It’s a very different state of affairs in India. Presidents make news for how indulgent they have been with pardons, not how self-seeking. Pranab Mukherjee, for example, rejected 30 mercy petitions and pardoned four convicts while Pratibha Patil commuted 34 mercy pleas and rejected only five. A look around the world shows that the pardon is not only a common part of constitutional schemes, its entanglement in political and business interests is widespread. Since its democratic reforms of 1987, South Korea has seen as many as four presidents pardoned. The count of chaebol scions and execs so favoured runs much longer. In Brazil presidential pardons are a Christmas tradition, rescuing an eclectic array, from prisoners in poor health to military personnel convicted of ‘negligent excess’. It is understandable that critics have come to see the power to pardon as archaic, arbitrary and inequitable rather than ‘an act of grace’. Its philosophical roots, however, are deep and powerful. In the work of Hannah Arendt, forgiveness is a key political and legal aid for moving ahead after ‘massive moral injury’. The issue is not innocence, but allowing all concerned to ‘begin again’. Her interpreters see democratic transfer of power itself as based in an implicit act of pardon. When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal as also when Jimmy Carter pardoned the Vietnam draft evaders, many contemporaries criticised the choices as unethical. But over the decades, they have come to be seen more as acts of national healing, allowing US, in Arendt’s words, to ‘begin again’. Once, this was a power vested in monarchy, and in religion. Despite a history going back to antiquity, it’s difficult to find any chapters minus the taint of corruption. In the 16th century Erasmus found himself tormented by the papacy flogging ‘forged pardons for real sins’. That the concept lives on into the present should not only be seen from the cynical perspective. After all, the idea of mercy will never lose all its human and public purpose.
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NoneWASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump selected Charles Kushner, who Trump pardoned during his first term, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to France on Saturday. Charles Kushner is the father of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump. “I am pleased to nominate Charles Kushner, of New Jersey, to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to France,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday. “He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests." Charles Kushner is the founder of Kushner Companies, a New York based real estate company. He t tax returns, retaliating against a cooperating witness, and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission in 2005. He served more than 16 months of a two-year sentence in federal prison and a halfway program before he was released in 2006, Trump saying at the time that Kushner was devoted to philanthropic organizations and causes. "This record of reform and charity overshadows Mr. Kushner’s conviction and 2 year sentence for preparing false tax returns, witness retaliation, and making false statements to the FEC," Trump's office said at the time. Charles Kushner New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a vocal Trump critic who ran in the 2024 Republican primaries and later dropped out. In a 2019 interview, Christie called Charles Kushner's actions “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he prosecuted as the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. The elder Kushner to seduce a brother-in-law and have their sexual encounter videotaped. Kushner then sent the tape to his sister in an effort to intimidate her against becoming a witness in the federal investigation.