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New Attorney General Pick |
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R, FL-1) removed himself from consideration for attorney general yesterday. The announcement came amid renewed scrutiny over allegations of sex trafficking, drug use, and sex with a minor. Trump announced he will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in Gaetz's place; see a running list of appointments here.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Gaetz's nomination over a week ago amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into the allegations against him. Those included claims Gaetz paid a then-17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, with one sex act involving another woman. The House this week deferred releasing its report. Gaetz denies the allegations against him; the Justice Department declined to bring charges.
Separately, the announcement came as a police report this week detailed graphic sexual assault allegations a woman made against Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary. Hegseth maintains the encounter—at a Republican women's conference in California in 2017—was consensual. |
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants yesterday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif. The three are charged with alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Hamas leader Deif—who Israel said was killed in a July airstrike—is accused of having a key role in the murder, rape, and torture during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which resulted in 1,200 deaths and over 250 hostages. Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of instigating widespread starvation by restricting food and humanitarian aid and intentionally targeting civilians in Gaza, where the death toll has passed 44,000, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
The ICC, an independent court that collaborates with the United Nations, relies on countries recognizing its jurisdiction to enforce its warrants—an authority not recognized by the US and China. Other leaders who face warrants include ex-Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
Sunday will mark 50 years since the discovery of the "Lucy" fossil in Ethiopia, a 3.2-million-year-old specimen whose rare completeness has made it the reference point for subsequent hominin fossil discoveries. The 3.5-foot-tall, 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis fossil is currently housed in the National Museum of Ethiopia (see facts and photos).
Paleoanthropologists first discovered her elbow Nov. 24, 1974, at an excavation site in Hadar, Ethiopia, eventually identifying and arranging over 40 skeletal parts. Named after a Beatles song, she was the first hominin fossil to surpass 3 million years in age and proved our human ancestors evolved to walk on two legs prior to our increase in brain size. For decades, she was believed to be the earliest known ancestor of our genus and held up as the matriarch of humanity.
Older, less complete hominin specimens have since been identified, prompting debate over which species is most closely linked to modern humans. Read about more recent discoveries here. |
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