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Former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, has set to appear in court of the sour to plead guilty for mishandling classified information.
NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reports Bolton served in President Trump's first administration
before becoming one of his sharpest critics. - Bolton is set to enter his plea at a Maryland district court. He was indicted back in October for 18 counts related to mishandling classified information. Federal prosecutors alleged that during his time as Trump's National Security Advisor, Bolton took copious notes of his daily meetings.
“Those notes included details of highly secret meetings.”
He then sent those classified notes to two family members. Bolton is expected to plead guilty to one count of rotating national security information. And he's expected to pay a fine. - Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. - Secretary of State Marco Rubio is citing progress and talks between Israel and Lebanon.
And PR's Michelle Kellerman reports the two sides have been meeting in Washington DC this week. - A joint statement between the U.S. and the Gulf Cooperation Council backs the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon and calls for the disarmament of non-state actors. That means he's below the Iranian-backed Lebanese militants. Rubio says the U.S. has revived a monitoring system.
“- And what it does is sent calm is now sitting not just with the Israeli military command, but the Lebanese command.”
And anytime an incident happens, we're not taking anybody else's word for it. We can see the incident and we can qualify, quantify what actually happened. - Renewed fighting between Hezbollah and Israel could derail U.S. talks with Iran, though Rubio says the negotiations are moving on separate tracks. - Michelle Kellerman and PR News Washington.
- Vice President J.D. Vance says the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon from office wouldn't have had the same impact in today's political climate. While promoting his new book at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in California, Vance said modern politics and media had changed how scandals unfold. Vance also said Watergate would barely register in today's non-stop news cycle.
“- If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story.”
The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy. And by the way, if you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon,
it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump in the first Trump administration.
President Nixon resigned in 1974 after the Watergate scandal and remains the only U.S. president to leave office before the end of his term. On Wall Street, Dow Futures are down 132 points of the hour. This is NPR. Wildfires continue to burn across parts of the western U.S. in Utah. The cottonwood fire has scorched more than 70,000 acres and is 0% contained. State Forester Jamie Barnes says strong winds and extremely low humidity can make conditions worse this weekend. The forecast heading into Friday and Saturday includes very strong winds and extremely low humidity.
In some places, we may see guests up to 40 to 50 miles per hour and humidity in the single digits. Nearly 40 large wildfires are burning across the dozen states. The Australian government says it's looking to strengthen its social media ban for children. Six months after it was introduced, data suggest the policy has done little to prevent most young people from accessing sites like Facebook and TikTok. Christina Cogula reports from Melbourne. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Parliament his government his prioritizing plans to toughen laws banning children under 16 from accessing some of the world's biggest social media sites.
Albanese said there's more to do to check the quote extraordinary power of tech giants. He called an accountable. The government is also looking at expanding the E-safety Commission as powers to enforce the restrictions. An Australian study published in the British Medical Journal found over 85% of underage respondents were still using restricted platforms three months into the ban. It found quote limited implementation in complete compliance and substantial circumvention of restrictions for NPR news.
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