jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024

The Evening: Biden commutes 1,500 sentences

Also, Israel said it would stay in Syria for now.
The Evening

December 12, 2024

Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Thursday.

  • 1,500 sentences commuted by Biden
  • Israel's plans in Syria
  • Plus, the hottest job in fashion
President Biden speaks before a podium with a yellow curtain and American flag behind him.
President Biden at the White House yesterday. Eric Lee/The New York Times

Biden commuted the sentences of 1,500 Americans, a record

President Biden announced today that he would pardon 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes and commute the sentences of 1,499 others. The White House said it was the largest number of commutations by an American president in a single day.

The act of clemency targeted those who had been released from prison and placed in home confinement during the pandemic. Recipients include people who were convicted of drug crimes, Medicare fraud and illegally prescribing opioids. Some were convicted as young adults only to serve in the military, help charities or train local firefighters.

In a statement, Biden said that many of the people would have received lower sentences if they had been charged under current laws. "America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances," he said.

Some Democrats have called on Biden to reduce the sentences of all 40 people on death row to life without parole because Donald Trump supports the death penalty. Members of Biden's staff have been debating whether he should issue blanket pardons for a number of Trump's perceived enemies to protect them from retribution.

Two windows on doors at the Capitol with a man wearing a black beanie staring through one on the left.
Rioters storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Trump said he'd begin his term with Jan. 6 pardons

Donald Trump promised to start pardoning participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol during the "first hour" he returns to office. He also said he would use his first day to begin deportations of undocumented immigrants.

Trump's comments were published today in an interview with Time magazine, which named him person of the year.

Today, the president-elect also rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange. More than a dozen people close to Trump told my colleagues that he sees the market as a barometer of his success and abhors the idea that his policies might hurt stock prices. That may prove more of a guardrail than institutional constraints.

In other politics news:

Several vehicles drive along a dusty road with a tall black fence bordering the left side.
Israeli military vehicles near the Syrian border, today. Shir Torem/Reuters

Israel said it would stay in Syria for now

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said today that troops who seized a buffer zone in Syria after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government would remain until the establishment of a force that meets Israel's security demands. Any deal between Israel and the Islamist rebels who led the offensive against al-Assad appears distant, given their mutual animosity.

Here's the latest.

In related news, a man freed from prison in Syria appeared to be a missing American, who said he had been detained for months. Also, a prominent activist who told the world about torture in Syria was found dead.

Mullah Osman, flanked on either side by a soldier, stands with a cane on a hillside with a mountain town behind him.
Mullah Osman Jawhari, a Taliban commander, near his home in Afghanistan. Bryan Denton for The New York Times

How the U.S. sabotaged itself in Afghanistan

American troops pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021. But the U.S. has never fully grappled with how it lost its way in the country's longest war. So my colleagues spent a year visiting the Waygal Valley, the site of one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. forces.

They asked locals, officials and former fighters — including a famed Taliban commander — for answers. By all accounts, the Americans virtually ensured their own defeat: They killed and maimed the very people who supported them most, turning allies into enemies.

More top news

TIME TO UNWIND

Cole Escola wearing a big black dress on a stage with a sign reading
Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln in the play "Oh, Mary!" At the Lyceum Theater. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

The vision behind Broadway's surprise hit

"Oh, Mary!" is this year's most surprising Broadway sensation. It's an outlandish comedy with an ahistorical premise, depicting the onetime first lady, Mary Todd Lincoln, as a self-involved alcoholic who dreams of becoming a cabaret star.

The show is the brainchild of Cole Escola, an alt-cabaret performer who wrote the show and stars as Mary. We talked to Escola about what inspired the character.

A portrait of Matthieu Blazy who is wearing a white shirt and standing in front of a bookshelf.
Matthieu Blazy in September 2023. Carmine Romano for The New York Times

The hottest job in fashion was just filled

Chanel has been without an artistic director for six months, and almost every top designer interviewed for the role. The wait is now over. Today, the luxury fashion brand announced that Matthieu Blazy, most recently of Bottega Veneta, is getting the coveted post.

His hiring is the biggest change in what has been the most disruptive year in fashion in decades, with seven other fashion houses naming new designers. It's also clear that Blazy has been charged with sending Chanel in a new direction, our critic Vanessa Friedman writes.

A woman with a faint mustache looking in a mirror and putting on red lipstick.
Lisa Sorgini for The New York Times

Dinner table topics

WHAT TO DO TONIGHT

A white plate with a stack of prosciutto and parmesan shingles.
Mark Weinberg for The New York Times

Cook: Add drama to appetizer hour by making a tower of crispy prosciutto.

Watch: "Nickel Boys" follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Read: Our critics discussed the books that left an impression on them this year.

Relinquish: Some people respond to holiday stress by adopting a Marie Kondo approach.

Pack: It might be worth preparing a "go bag" in case of extreme weather. Here's how.

Hunt: Which New York-area home would you buy?

Play: Here are today's Spelling Bee, Wordle and Mini Crossword. Find all our games here.

ONE LAST THING

A pastel green cocktail, with crushed pistachios on the rim of a martini glass, is dramatically lit in a studio.
Kelly Marshall for The New York Times

This baffling drink is beloved in Boston

A bar in Boston's North End serves an indulgent drink with a scoop of pistachio ice cream melting into vanilla vodka. Nearby, other bars offer a greenish drink with Irish cream liqueur and blue Curaçao. Both are called pistachio martinis, and they are adored by locals.

Bartenders credit the drink's popularity to the neighborhood's heavily Italian population. But pistachios aren't Italian. In reality, it probably has more to do with the fact that a glass of dessert can be hard to turn down, especially this time of year.

Have a tempting evening.

Thanks for reading. I'll be back tomorrow. — Matthew

Vi Nguyen was our photo editor today.

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