After having spent Monday morning and evening predictably defending and spinning President Joe Biden’s pardon of his scandal-ridden son Hunter, ABC News waved goodbye to this story all together on its flagship (and superficial) morning show Good Morning America. In contrast, CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today kept up the pressure, acknowledging the hullabaloo. All three networks had segments continuing the blatant smear campaign against Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth, but CBS and NBC found time to pile on the President. “Blowback from both parties as President Biden faces criticism for the pardon of his son Hunter,” CBS co-host Tony Dokoupil declared the show’s Eye Opener.     In the lead-in to congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane’s piece, Dokoupil added Biden’s “really hearing it, facing some serious criticism from both parties” with “some Democrats...saying it could undermine trust in the judicial system, not to mention Biden’s legacy.” MacFarlane admitted “there is strong reaction” to the “political storm” Biden “has kicked up” on his way to Africa for the pardon of his son to keep him from prison. “The President left behind the political earthquake he triggered in Washington with several fellow Democrats blasting the President’s choice...Some calling the pardon ‘unwise’ and ‘improper,’ adding he ‘put personal interest ahead of duty,’” he added in quoting reactions from Senate Democrats Michael Bennet (CO), Gary Peters (MI), and Pete Welch (VT) ahead of sound from moderate Republican Senators Susan Collins (ME) and Lisa Murkowski (AK). NBC was even more blunt. Co-host Hoda Kotb teased a full story on the “growing fallout” stemming from “that controversial decision” in which Biden “went back on his word.” Nonetheless, CBS and NBC continued their refusal to call President Biden or his administration liars for going back on their words. Senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez did everything but call him a liar: “This morning, while President Biden is on a three-day trip to Africa, the firestorm over his full and unconditional pardon of his son is growing, even amongst some Democrats.”     For his clips, he used Democratic Congressmen Daniel Goldman (NY) and Greg Stanton (AZ) and noted that, “[f]or months, the President and his team had repeatedly insisted Hunter Biden would not be pardon.” He also shared NBC’s reporting that Biden had been contemplating this since at least June and committed to saying one thing in public while doing another to keep his son out of prison and any possible charges relating to Burisma (click “expand”): GUTIERREZ: But NBC News has learned he had discussed it with some of his closest aides at least since his son’s conviction in June. That’s according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. They also said it was decided at the time that the President would public say that he would not pardon his son, even though doing so remained on the table. The White House now denying that reporting, reiterating the decision was made this past weekend. TUBERVILLE: If it was my son, I would pardon him, too. But here’s what I didn’t like. Don’t lie to us. Don’t tell us you are not going to do it and then do it. GUTIERREZ: The President writing that he believes in the justice system, but also believes “raw politics has infected this process.” The blanket pardon covers not only Hunter Biden’s felony convictions on firearms charges and tax evasion, but also includes any offenses dating back to January 2014, months before he joined the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father was Vice President. Gutierrez would later conclude with the observation that “just days ago, Hunter Biden’s defense team released a lengthy document outlining why it believed that the process had been politicized and that language mirrored some of what President Biden laid out.” How convenient! To see the relevant transcripts from December 3, click here (for CBS) and here (for NBC).

On Saturday afternoon, CNN aired a totally one-sided report by correspondent Gabe Cohen on a couple who fled Missouri for Maryland to make sure their 12-year-old "transgender daughter" can access puberty blockers, aka "gender-affirming care."  After reading a brief about the U.S. Supreme Court planning to take a case to decide whether Tennessee can ban gender transitions for children, CNN host Fredricka Whitfield used all the leftist lingo about "the health care she needs."  When Missouri banned transgender care for minors, one family left the state to find a place for their 12-year-old transgender daughter, but President-elect Trump's promise to roll back transgender rights has them wondering if their child will be able to get the health care she needs. CNN's Gabe Cohen has more. Reporter Gabe Cohen began by showing a clip of himself speaking with the 12-year-old in question, whose face was obscured and was referred to by "Katie," which isn't her actual transgender name of choice. Displaying a Pride flag, "Katie" said "This shows to the world that I don't want to hide and pretend to be someone else." Cohen soon recalled: "Twelve-year-old Katie and her family moved across the country last year to flee state restrictions on their daughter's rights." Then came clips of the parents Sarah and Erez Haluf, complaining about those who oppose transgenderism: SARAH HALUF, MOTHER OF TRANSGENDER CHILD: I don't have the answer of why people hate her and have never met her. Where is Katie allowed to exist? How is she allowed to exist? EREZ HALUF, FATHER OF TRANSGENDER CHILD: Is she allowed to exist? No one wants the child dead, despite the dramatic presentation. After a soundbite of Trump speaking out against trying to change a child's gender, Cohen went on to suggest that Republicans were liars in how they have campaigned against Democrats on the issue: COHEN: Transgender rights have become one of the biggest flashpoints in this country's culture wars, marked in many cases by lies and flat-out conspiracies. DONALD TRUMP (on Fox & Friends): There are some places, your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl. CLIP OF AD: Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners. It's not a lie that Kamala supported taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners. It's there on tape, in the ad!  After showing another clip of Trump opposing transgenderism, the parents were seen complaining again about how Republicans are handling the issue: EREZ HALUF: This is 100 percent BS. SARAH HALUF: It's sowing fear, and then, by doing that, you're sowing hate. And all of this comes back to people like our child. We thought that by leaving Missouri and coming to Maryland, that we would be safe. And now we're being threatened with anti-trans legislation at a federal level. Nearing the end of the piece, the CNN reporter brought up the possibility that, if Trump is successful in passing a federal law against "gender affirming care" for children, the family may leave America and seek asylum in Canada: COHEN: So families like Katie's are trying to prepare for what's ahead, even drafting an asylum application. SARAH HALUF: We have to start thinking about a backup pan. EREZ HALUF: If push comes to shove, we will need to go north. We will go to Canada. COHEN: What would it take for your family to say, "We need to leave this country"? SARAH HALUF: The federal health care ban would likely be the moment we'd know it's time to leave here. Transcript follows: CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield November 30, 2024 2:07 p.m. Eastern FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: All right, next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a potentially explosive case involving transgender care. The case centers on a Tennessee law enacted last year banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children. Critics say the law injects the state into family medical decisions and overrides parental rights. When Missouri banned transgender care for minors, one family left the state to find a place for their 12-year-old transgender daughter, but President-elect Trump's promise to roll back transgender rights has them wondering if their child will be able to get the health care she needs. CNN's Gabe Cohen has more. GABE COHEN: So what am I looking at here? "KATIE" (ANONYMOUS TRANSGENDER CHILD): My Pride flag. This shows to the world that I don't want to hide and pretend to be someone else. I want to be me. SARAH HALUF, MOTHER OF TRANSGENDER CHILD Our child should have the same rights as any other child. Because she's transgender, doesn't make her any different. COHEN: Twelve-year-old Katie and her family moved across the country last year to flee state restrictions on their daughter's rights. At her parents' request, we're not showing her face, and we're using an alternate name. SARAH HALUF: I don't have the answer of why people hate her and have never met her. Where is Katie allowed to exist? EREZ HALUF, FATHER OF TRANSGENDER CHILD: Is she allowed to exist? PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: We won't be changing your children's gender with their transgender craziness. COHEN: Transgender rights have become one of the biggest flashpoints in this country's culture wars, marked in many cases by lies and flat-out conspiracies. TRUMP (on Fox & Friends): There are some places, your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl. CLIP OF AD: Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners. COHEN: Republicans support more than $200 million on anti-trans ads before the election CLIP OF AD: Kamala is for "they/them" -- Trump is for you. EREZ HALUF: This is 100 percent BS. SARAH HALUF: It's sowing fear, and then, by doing that, you're sowing hate. And all of this comes back to people like our child. We thought that by leaving Missouri and coming to Maryland, that we would be safe. And now we're being threatened with anti-trans legislation at a federal level. COHEN: At least 26 states, including Missouri, have passed restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors. SARAH HALUF: This was their final protest in Jefferson City. We did everything we could to fight this, and there was nothing that we could do to change their minds. We moved to Maryland to be able to access gender-affirming care for Katie. What that looks like is therapy services -- it's clothing -- it's haircuts. And, at this age, it is a hormone blocker to prevent her from going through puberty. KATIE: This is my hormone blocker right here. COHEN: Could that treatment be reversed at some point? SARAH HALUF: Yes, absolutely. It's really a pause button. Katie gets more time to live in the body that she has now. TRUMP: On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care. COHEN: Trump has promised federal restrictions on transgender rights, including far stricter rights about gender-affirming care, especially for minors. One trans rights organization saw a nearly 700 percent increase in calls to their crisis hotline after the election. What would happen if your daughter didn't get that care? SARAH HALUF: She would end up going through puberty, and it would be traumatizing to her to see all of those things happen to her body. COHEN: I know you get some treatment from doctors, from other care. What would happen if you didn't get that? KATIE: I would be upset and scared. EREZ HALUF: In the LGBT community, the suicide rate is high for those who are not being supported by their caregivers. SARAH HALUF: We want her to survive childhood. COHEN: So families like Katie's are trying to prepare for what's ahead, even drafting an asylum application. SARAH HALUF: We have to start thinking about a backup pan. EREZ HALUF: If push comes to shove, we will need to go north. We will go to Canada. COHEN: What would it take for your family to say, "We need to leave this country." SARAH HALUF: The federal health care ban would likely be the moment we'd know it's time to leave here. COHEN: What does this symbolize to you? KATIE: Freedom and rights. This proves that everybody has their own rights to be themselves. WHITFIELD: Gabe Cohen, thank you so much for that report.

The leftwing media meltdown over President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks intensified this week with the news that he would appoint Kash Patel, the former Chief of Staff to the Defense Secretary, to replace sitting FBI Director Chris Wray. Journalists applied all the same lazy, nebulous labels to Patel that they had to other nominees, including “loyalist,” “disruptor,” “unqualified,” and the like. But their panic over him specifically goes far further than that. Rather, they appear genuinely afraid that Patel might actually do what he’s said he would: aggressively root out and prosecute corruption at the hitherto unaccountable agency. Considering the relationships that these networks have with career intelligence agency bureaucrats, it’s no wonder as to why. Over the last decade and a half, channels like CNN and MSNBC have hired a slew of former Obama-era Justice Department officials, many of whom were integral members of what someone like Patel would call the “deep state.”     For nearly a decade now, CNN has retained disgraced former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as a paid contributor, as well as former Deputy FBI Director Andy McCabe, among others. Meanwhile, MSNBC has extended cozy contributor contracts to the likes of former CIA Director John Brennan. Various shows on that network also make a habit of inviting on guests like Peter Stork and Andrew Weissman. These are the sort of people (and in some cases, the actual people) who signed the bogus “51 former intelligence officials say Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation” letter. It’s all very swampy. Since Saturday, these same alphabet agency denizens-turned-propagandists have been all over CNN and MSNBC, issuing dire warnings about how very “dangerous” Kash Patel’s nomination is for America. Unfortunately for these swamp creatures and their media enablers, this is the exact kind of behavior that got Trump elected to begin with. When all the wrong people are railing this aggressively against a Presidential appointment, it starts to look like a ringing endorsement not just of Patel himself, but of the idea that perhaps his stated mission has some merit.

The U.S. Secret Service said one agent was involved in a shooting outside of the home of Janet Yellen, the secretary of the treasury, overnight. The agent assigned to Yellen's home in Washington, D.C., confronted several people who were trying to open doors of cars in Yellen's neighborhood at about 1:30 a.m., according to a statement from Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi. 'There is currently no evidence to indicate anyone was struck.' "The agent discharged their service weapon, but there is currently no evidence to indicate anyone was struck," he added. "The suspects fled the scene in the sedan, and a lookout was issued to local law enforcement."He said there was no threat to Yellen during the incident, and she was not harmed. "The officer involved shooting incident is under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division's Force Investigations Team, which investigates all law enforcement officer involved shootings in the District of Columbia," he concluded. Yellen will be replaced by hedge fund manager Scott Bessent if he is approved by the Senate. Yellen has been criticized for inflation during her time at the treasury. In March, she said she regretted claiming that inflation would be "transitory" after it continued to linger and damage Americans' budgets. Bessent has been criticized by some on the right for his ties to billionaire leftist George Soros, but his supporters praise Bessent as a defender of the free market and opponent of deficit spending.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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I switched from a 40mm Apple Watch SE 2 to a 42mm Apple Watch Series 10 in late September, and it's the best thing I've ever done. But there's an unexpected twist, and it's so annoying. I run marathons now, and I want Apple's wearables to track my health parameters during races and the entire training phase leading up to a race. My old Apple Watch SE's battery health dropped below 80%, at which point I had to recharge it twice a day to ensure it would not die suddenly. I could have replaced the battery or purchased another SE model. But, as I get older, I also want better health tracking — and the premium Apple Watch Series 10 delivers that. I want the wearable to track my health parameters around the clock, not just while I'm training. I should also tell you that I'm always running the latest watchOS 11 beta, which can often explain various bugs. But there's one that I keep seeing, and it has nothing to do with the current beta OS I'm running: The Apple Watch Series 10's sensors don't consistently track my heart rate during workouts. I started noticing this bug in mid-October. Since then, I've seen some improvements, but I'm still missing data from the run and walk session. It turns out I'm not the only one. BGR's editor Zach Epstein got a 46mm Apple Watch Series 10. He also encountered the same issue during an elliptical workout, and he's not running a beta version of watchOS. He also had the same problem with his older Apple Watch Ultra, which means the problem isn't just an issue with the Series 10 model. Continue reading... The post Apple Watch Series 10 has a frustrating problem with workout tracking appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Early Black Friday deals: Nintendo Switch games, $249 Oura Ring 3, $25 Crock-Pot, $100 Beats Pill, more Best Apple deals for Black Friday 2024 Amazon gift card deals, offers & coupons 2024: Get $450+ free Early Black Friday deals: $159 AirPods Pro 2, $99 Ninja blender, $998 Sony 85-inch TV, $199 Bose soundbar, more

A couple of weeks after releasing visionOS 2.2 beta 3 to developers, Apple has now seeded its fourth testing version. Unlike the tame visionOS 2.1 update, this new build brings a long-awaited feature: wider Mac Virtual Display options. Mac Virtual Display is one of the OG features of Apple Vision Pro. However, with new wide and ultrawide modes, the spatial computer offers a more immersive experience. Here’s what this feature is all about: Using Mac Virtual Display is like having an expandable, ultrawide screen that wraps around you. It’s the equivalent of having two 4K displays sitting side by side — everything looks astoundingly sharp and incredibly detailed. Now, with an ultrawide view, Apple says it feels like you have two physical 4K displays sitting side by side on a desk, except you don’t have something limiting the two displays. This Apple Vision Pro feature is perfect for anyone multitasking on a Mac, and it feels better than having several windows floating around. With this feature, you can open several apps at once and visualize them before you with Vision Pro’s incredible displays. Not only will this boost productivity, but it will also make this spatial computer a more compelling upgrade than two Studio Displays, as you can use it for more than just mirroring your Mac once you finish working. Apple is expected to expand Mac Visual Display in early December when visionOS 2.2 is expected to be released to all users. While rumors about a new Vision Pro are contradictory, the latest reports expect Apple to update this product next year with a more capable processor, most likely the M5. However, a revamped interaction is still a few years away. At this moment, Apple has only released visionOS 2.2 beta 4 to Apple Vision Pro developers. We'll let you know if more betas or RCs are released this week. Don't Miss: visionOS: Features, 2.0, release date, Apple Vision Pro, more The post visionOS 2.2 beta 4 now available ahead of official release appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Amazon is giving out free money for Black Friday 2024 Cyber Monday blowout: Free AirPods 4, $374 PlayStation 5, Apple sale, $297 Nectar mattress, $60 Keurig, more T-Mobile’s latest holiday offer: Get an iPhone 16 Pro on us Reolink Black Friday & Cyber Monday deals: Up to 43% off the best new security cameras