President Joe Biden has decided to issue a pardon for his son Hunter and is expected to announce it Sunday night, according to a senior White House official with direct knowledge of the decision. The decision marks a reversal for the president, who has repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence. The pardon comes ahead of Hunter Biden’s Dec. 12 sentencing for his conviction on federal gun charges. Hunter Biden also is set to be sentenced in a separate criminal case on Dec. 16, after pleading guilty in September on federal tax evasion charges.

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As global conflicts escalate, with Russian President Vladimir Putin threatening nuclear action in Ukraine and rising tensions in the Middle East, the United States and its allies are taking steps to inform citizens about how to respond in the event of a nuclear attack. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued detailed guidance in a 258-page document titled Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation. The document warns that a nuclear event would be one of the most catastrophic incidents in U.S. history and outlines steps to minimize harm. FEMA advises that a nuclear explosion may occur with little to no warning and stresses three critical actions: get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos arranged Trump campaign efforts to engage the Arab American community in Michigan, organizing dozens of meetings in areas with large Arab American populations angered by Democratic President Joe Biden’s backing of Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump won the majority Arab American city of Dearborn Heights on his way to sweeping Michigan and other swing states.

Federal authorities have deported a Jordanian national caught attempting to cross the U.S.-Canada border earlier this month, citing concerns over his potential ties to terrorism. Mohammad Hasan Abdellatif Albana, 41, was apprehended by Border Patrol agents in Lynden, Washington, near the northern border. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed Wednesday that Albana was expelled from the United States on November 15. ICE has not disclosed the exact timeline or details of how or when Albana entered the country but stated that his removal was part of an ongoing effort to protect national security. “ERO Seattle is committed to the removal of noncitizens who pose a risk to the national security of the U.S.,” said Drew H. Bostock, ICE Seattle Field Office Director.

Donald Trump’s drive to upend the FBI was welcomed by Republican senators although it was not clear on Sunday how strongly members of the incoming majority party would embrace his move to install ally Kash Patel as the next director of the Justice Department’s top investigative arm. Patel, a onetime national security prosecutor who is aligned with the president-elect’s rhetoric about a “deep state,” “must prove to Congress he will reform & restore public trust in FBI,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, in line to be the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman when Republicans take control in January, in a post on X.

Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, the 22-year-old terrorist accused of a shooting spree targeting an Orthodox Jewish man on the way to shul on Shabbos morning, Chicago police officers, and paramedics in West Rogers Park, has been found dead in Cook County Jail, officials said. His death is believed to be a suicide by hanging. The visibly Jewish victim, who was wearing a yarmulka and a tallis, was walking in the 2900 block of West Farwell Avenue on October 26 when Abdallahi fired at him from behind. Prosecutors said the Jewish man heard the gunshot and felt pain in his shoulder but did not realize he had been shot until noticing a hole in his jacket. Surveillance footage captured Abdallahi firing at the victim and then running away while attempting to clear a jammed semi-automatic pistol.

A Jewish student from the United States living in Ireland was severely assaulted last month in Dublin in what authorities are investigating as a possible antisemitic hate crime, The Irish Times reported Saturday. The attack occurred on November 9 when three men confronted the victim, who was wearing a Star of David necklace. According to the report, one of the men asked if he was Jewish. After confirming he was, the men attacked him, causing a concussion before security intervened. One suspect has been arrested, and prosecutors are reportedly considering hate crime charges. Israel’s ambassador to Ireland, Dana Erlich, condemned the attack, citing an “alarming increase” in anti-Israel rhetoric in Ireland, which she said often “mutates” into antisemitism.

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution for a week in South Korea won’t reach an agreement and plan to resume the talks next year. They are at an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics. The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastics pollution, including in the oceans, by the end of 2024. But with time running out early Monday, negotiators agreed to resume the talks next year. They don’t yet have firm plans.

Dean Sweetland casts his gaze over a forlorn street in the Israeli community of Kibbutz Malkiya. Perched on a hill overlooking the border with Lebanon, the town stands mostly empty after being abandoned a year ago. The daycare is closed. The homes are unkempt. Parts of the landscape are ashen from fires sparked by fallen Hezbollah rockets. Even after a tenuous Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire designed to let Israelis return to the north, the mood here is far from celebratory. “The ceasefire is rubbish,” said Sweetland, a gardener and member of the kibbutz’s civilian security squad.