CBS News tried to generate outrage yesterday by posting this video of a brat being detained by ICE agents while yelling that she’s an American citizen and needs help: A U.S. citizen . . .

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President Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, on Dec. 1, claiming without evidence that his prosecution had been a "setup" by the Biden administration and that Hernández was targeted because he was president of a country where drug cartels operated. "If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn't mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life," Trump said in explaining the pardon. But Hernández had been found guilty by a jury after a three-week trial. He was sentenced by a U.S. District judge last year to 45 years in prison for using his position to help drug traffickers import more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, while accepting bribes to fuel his political career and protecting violent drug cartel leaders from prosecution in return.

The European Commission on Friday imposed a €120 million fine on Elon Musk's X, the first-ever penalty issued under the bloc's flagship content moderation law. The move is likely to inflame tensions with the U.S. over the bloc's digital rules and prompted early criticism from U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who blasted the plans as a fine for "not engaging in censorship." While the fine's size is moderate compared to earlier tech penalties issued by Brussels, the U.S. has repeatedly pushed the EU to water down its tech rule books in trade talks.

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien said Amazon is his union's biggest opponent and a "white-collar crime syndicate." O'Brien cast the fight against the e-commerce giant over the past few years as critical for the Teamsters in a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Examiner in his office near Capitol Hill. O'Brien, who was born and raised in Massachusetts in a family of Teamsters, mentioned a story from the Boston Globe that just over 2,400 Amazon employees are recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, which he sees as evidence of the corporation not doing enough for their workers. "And when you look at Amazon, a tycoon — I call them a white-collar crime syndicate, a corporate white-collar crime syndicate — in Massachusetts alone, like 2,400 of their employees are on SNAP benefits, right?" O'Brien said. "And that's a f***ing embarrassment."

Netflix has agreed to buy the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery for $72bn (£54bn) in a major Hollywood deal. The streaming giant emerged as the successful bidder for Warner Bros ahead of rivals Comcast and Paramount Skydance after a drawn-out battle. Warner Bros owns franchises including Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, and the streaming service HBO Max. The takeover is set to create a new giant in the entertainment industry, but the deal will still have to be approved by competition authorities.

The new Pentagon press corps entered the imposing building on the Potomac for the first time this week as those disgruntled members of the former press corps took to their pages to complain about it. The New York Times went a step further and is suing the Pentagon over what they say is a violation of the First Amendment.

When Trump administration officials post snuff films of alleged drug boats blowing up, of a weeping migrant handcuffed by immigration officers or of themselves in front of inmates at a brutal El Salvadoran prison, I often think of a story St. Augustine told in his "Confessions." In the fourth century A.D., a young man named Alypius arrived in Rome to study law. He was a decent sort. He knew the people at the center of the empire delighted in cruel gladiatorial games, and he promised himself he would not go. Eventually, though, his fellow students dragged him to a match. At first, the crowd appalled Alypius. "The entire place seethed with the most monstrous delight in the cruelty," Augustine wrote, and Alypius kept his eyes shut, refusing to look at the evil around him.