Biden's son gets rare family pardon while Trump sets deadline for Gaza hostages

Joe Biden made an uncommon move by giving his son Hunter Biden a wide-ranging pardon that covers more than a decade of time: Democrats say this choice might hurt peoples trust in how justice works

In other news Donald Trump posted a firm message about Gaza hostages saying there would be “hell to pay“ if theyʼre not free by inauguration day (which happens in about 6 weeks)

The west coast is getting ready - California lawmakers met up to plan their legal defense against Trumps future policies; Meanwhile a weird thing happened at the Capitol when some Democratic worker brought ammo by mistake

A missing persons case got more complex: Hannah Kobayashi who left Hawaii and went missing in LA about 4 weeks ago was seen walking to Mexico with bags. Her dads death makes this case extra-sad but police wont look across the border

Health officials found bad cucumbers in stores: they made like 70 people sick in different states and some needed hospital care. The veggies came from Mexico through SunFed Produce; its just one of many food-safety problems this year

Starbucks and Nestlé got some bad news about their coffee beans from China - seems like workers there dont have good conditions; both companies say theyll check it out but China isnt really big in coffee yet

In Toronto this cool thing happened - Duncan McCabe spent like 10 months running around to make art: he used an exercise app to draw a stick figure dancing which got super-popular online

Purple Hat dance animation created by running 700 miles