Times Biden said he would not pardon Hunter before granting him clemency anyway

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President Biden had stated he would not pardon his son Hunter Biden multiple times before reversing course on Sunday, ultimately granting clemency to Hunter for all offenses against the United States he committed or may have committed from Jan. 1, 2024, to Dec. 1, 2024.

On June 6, Biden said he would not pardon Hunter during an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir in Normandy, France, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Regarding President-elect Trump’s conviction in the Manhattan “hush-money” trial, Biden told “MAGA Republicans” to “Stop undermining the rule of law. Stop undermining the institutions.”

Muir, noting Hunter was in the midst of a federal trial himself at the time, then asked Biden, “Will you accept the jury’s outcome no matter what it is?”

“Yes,” Biden said flatly.

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“Have you ruled out a pardon for your son?” Muir asked.

President Biden and son Hunter Biden stepping out of a bookstore while shopping in Nantucket, Massachusetts on Nov. 29, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Again, the president responded, “Yes.”

About a week later, Biden told a news conference on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Italy that he would not use his presidential powers to lessen Hunter’s sentence.

A sentencing date for Hunter’s conviction on federal gun charges had not been set at the time, though the three counts carried up to 25 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was nominated by Trump, would have made the decision.

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“I’m extremely proud of my son Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He is one of the brightest, most decent men I know,” Biden said during the press conference on June 13. “I abide by the jury decision. I will do that, and I will not pardon him.”

Biden, who will leave office on Jan. 20, on Sunday granted Hunter a “full and unconditional pardon” for offenses against the United States “which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” That includes, but is not limited to, those prosecuted by Special Counsel David Weiss.

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Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen leave court after his guilty plea in his trail on tax evasion in Los Angeles, California, on Sept. 5, 2024. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

“The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Biden said in a statement. “Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.”

“There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution,” he added. “In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here.”

Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced this month in two federal cases, which the special counsel brought after a plea deal with prosecutors that likely would have spared him prison time fell apart under scrutiny by a judge. Under the original deal, Hunter was supposed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses and would have avoided prosecution in a gun case as long as he stayed out of trouble for two years.

The plea hearing quickly unraveled last year when the judge raised concerns about unusual aspects of the deal. Hunter was subsequently indicted in the two cases.

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Hunter Biden was convicted in June in Delaware federal court of three felonies for purchasing a gun in 2018 when, prosecutors said, he lied on a federal form by claiming he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. He had been set to stand trial in September in a California case accusing him of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes, but he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor and felony charges in a surprise move hours after jury selection was set to begin.

House Republicans also sought to use Hunter’s history of overseas business ventures in a since-abandoned attempt to impeach his father, who has long denied involvement in his son’s dealings or benefiting from them in any way.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Danielle Wallace is a breaking news and politics reporter at Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on X: @danimwallace.

Restaurant staff watch baby so parents can eat meals in peace

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It’s not often that parents of a young child turn their little one over — well, sort of — to complete strangers.

But that’s just part of the story.

A couple who were vacationing in Bali with their baby were amazed when the staff at various restaurants they visited offered to entertain their child so the parents could eat their meals in peace.

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Kosta Genaris, 31, and his wife Skye Genaris, 29, took their young son, Theo, on his first trip abroad in November.

On video and in photos, staff can be seen entertaining the 11-month-old while the couple were able to enjoy a meal together. (See the video at the top of this article.)

Employees at a restaurant in Bali entertained an 11-month-old boy whose parents were enjoying a meal. (SWNS)

Staff members carried the child behind the bar and showed him glassware and drinks.

Overall, they generally “kept him happy” while the parents were able to have a “well-deserved break” for dinner, according to news service SWNS.

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Kosta Genaris, a marketing manager based in Australia, said he was at first “a little apprehensive” about the arrangement.

That changed quickly, however.

“I saw how much fun Theo was having,” he told SWNS, as staff members carried the baby boy around.

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A restaurant employee in Bali is all smiles as she holds baby Theo. “I saw how much fun Theo was having,” the boy’s father said. (SWNS)

And he realized, the boy’s dad said, that “it was the first time in nearly a year that my wife and I had a hot meal together.”

He said the staff “were always so gracious.”

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He also clarified that the staff always “asked for our permission to show him things.”

The child “was never taken out of our eyeline,” said the dad.

A restaurant employee entertains a baby whose parents are vacationing in Bali, Indonesia.

Kosta Genaris (not pictured) said the restaurant staff “were always so gracious” and “asked for our permission to show him things.” (SWNS)

Fox News Digital reached out to the father — who noted that his original video on the topic “went viral with over one million views,” he said.

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Known as “Island of the Gods,” Bali, a province of Indonesia, has many ancient temples that are said to take a visitor’s breath away.

The island is full of oceanfront resorts for travelers to enjoy easy access to beaches.

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FDA battles vaping industry at the Supreme Court : NPR

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At issue in the case before the Supreme Court Monday is the manner in which the FDA regulates e-cigarettes.

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The U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue of vaping and e-cigarette regulation on Monday.

If you don’t know much about vaping, be assured that teenagers do. For the uninitiated, vaping is the inhaling of an aerosol mist from an electronic cigarette or other similar device, which heats up a liquid containing nicotine to create a vapor that looks like smoke. It’s an alternative that helps some smokers get off more damaging tobacco cigarettes, but it’s also a product that has become increasingly popular with middle- and high-school kids.

William Schultz, who served for five years as the FDA’s deputy commissioner for policy in the 1990s, says that the arrival of e-cigarettes has transformed a major public health victory into a major threat.

“When the FDA started regulating cigarettes in the 1990s, a third of kids smoked cigarettes,” he observes, whereas “now it’s 2%.”

That’s the good news. The bad news is that “in the meantime, e-cigarettes have filled the vacuum,” he says.

Indeed, according to national surveys conducted by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of high school kids who reported daily vaping of e-cigarettes jumped from 9.7% in 2014 to 30% in 2023.

That jump is important because under a 2009 federal law, the FDA is charged with curbing the use of tobacco and nicotine products used by minors to prevent them from becoming addicted. Among the regulated products are e-cigarettes, which first entered the U.S. market in 2006.

How the FDA regulates e-cigarettes

Monday’s case is about how the FDA went about doing that.

“There’s a concern that the FDA has kind of been operating in an ad hoc, unfair manner in the way it’s been evaluating all these applications for what are literally millions of vaping products,” says law professor Jonathan Adler, who has written extensively about this subject.

Basically, the FDA has made it increasingly difficult for vaping producers to sell their products using flavors that appeal to kids. Flavors like “pink lemonade,” “rainbow road” “jimmy the juice-man peachy strawberry,” and “suicide bunny mother’s milk and cookies.”

To date, only 27 companies, most of them small, have been approved to sell their vaping products, and the vaping industry has gone to court to challenge FDA decisions not to allow millions of products on to the market –- products that the agency deems to be “gateway devices,” aimed at minors to introduce them to nicotine addiction.

Lower court action

Seven appeals courts have, for the most part, approved the FDA’s decisions and two have at least partially rejected those decisions. But one appeals court, the ultra-conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected virtually every aspect of the FDA’s decision-making process, eviscerating the agency’s conduct as a “surprise switcheroo” in which companies were told that the FDA required certain studies, including marketing studies, but then changed its mind.

The Fifth Circuit decision “threatened to allow all vaping product manufacturers to put their products on the market and keep their products on the market,” says Adler.

What’s more, he says, the decision had an additional and “aggressive” feature that “threatened to make this decision the de facto rule for the country as a whole, one that would require the FDA to completely remake it’s regulatory regime.”

So, while the Biden administration had not appealed other adverse lower court rulings, it challenged this one full bore. And because even the FDA concedes that its regulatory guidance has evolved, it faces the charge that its conduct has been well short of ideal.

The agency has not been clear about what the vaping companies must show to get the go-ahead for flavored e-cigarettes, says Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University. He notes that the FDA “initially asked companies what they would do to prevent the marketing of their products to children,” but the agency later decided “it didn’t think any restrictions on marketing would do enough so it stopped looking at those.”

Basically, the companies claim that because the specific demands of the agency have been a moving target, the rules are arbitrary and capricious in violation of federal administrative law.

Former FDA deputy commissioner Schultz has a different take. He notes that just as the agency in the past had to gain experience with earlier products and devices that it was charged with regulating, it has had a similar task in dealing with the explosion of vaping devices over just the last few years.

Indeed, the FDA stopped looking at the marketing of vaping products to children because the agency concluded that there was no way to allow flavored e-cigarettes without harming large numbers of children. To date, the only flavored e-cigarettes the agency has approved for sale are those that are tobacco and menthol flavored. The FDA said essentially that those flavors are more likely to get adults off regular and far more dangerous cigarettes and less likely to attract underage users.

The Supreme Court could rule in many different ways in the case, with experts saying the ultimate decision could be a narrow one. Keep in mind, though, that the conservative Supreme Court supermajority has not hesitated to redraw the regulatory map, and if it does so in this case, it could well open the floodgates to flavored e-cigarettes that greatly increase the number of kids vaping their way through middle and high school.

Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair takes aim at ‘racist and Islamophobic fans’ in apology for hit on Trevor Lawrence

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Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair broke his silence on Monday morning after he received criticism for the hit he put on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, which left him with a concussion.

Al-Shaair also took a shot at reporters and those who scrutinized him for his pro-Palestinian cleats in the aftermath of the hit.

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Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, #0, is held back by Houston Texans linebacker Henry To’oTo’o, #39, after being ejected against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the second quarter at EverBank Stadium on Dec. 1, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)

“I’ve always played the game as hard as I could. Never with the intent to harm anyone and anybody that knows me knows that. My goal is to hit you as hard as I can then I pray you’re still able to get up and play the next play,” he said in a statement. “And when the game is over go home to your family unharmed because it’s not personal! It’s just competition. We both are trying to do the same thing which is provide for our families!

“I genuinely didn’t see him sliding until it was too late. And it all happens in the blink of an eye. To Trevor I genuinely apologize to you for what ended up happening. Before the game we spoke and I told you how it was great to see you back out on the field and wished you well. I would never want t see any player hurt because of a hit I put on them especially one that’s deemed ‘late’ or ‘unnecessary.’ To the rest of his teammates I can definitely understand you having his back and defending him in a situation like that.

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, #16, slides in front of Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, #0, during the first half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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“To the rest of the people who I’ve been called every single name in the book from reporters with their hands ready for a story to find their villain, to racist and Islamophobic fans and people, you don’t know my heart nor my character which I don’t need to prove to any of you. God knows my intentions and anyone who has been a teammate or friend of mine knows my heart.”

Al-Shaair was ejected from the Texans’ 23-20 win over the Jaguars because of the hit to Lawrence’s head and neck area. It sparked a brawl, which led to the ejection of Jacksonville cornerback Jarrian Jones.

Jaguars players defended Lawrence and called Al-Shaair’s hit “dirty.”

Lawrence gave a health update later Sunday.

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, #16, slides for a down as Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, #0, makes a late hit during the second quarter of an NFL football matchup on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union)

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“Thank you to everyone who has reached out / been praying for me,” he wrote on X. “I’m home and feeling better. Means a lot, thank you all.”

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Trump says he intends to nominate loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director

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President-elect Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he would be replacing FBI director Chris Wray with Kash Patel, a longtime ally. Patel has made controversial statements about the agency.

Steelers’ Mike Tomlin calls out George Pickens: ‘He’s got to grow up in a hurry’

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Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin called out wide receiver George Pickens following the team’s 44-38 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday.

Pickens led the team with three catches for 75 yards and a first-quarter touchdown. However, Tomlin was unhappy with the penalties Pickens committed. The wide receiver had two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in the game. Pittsburgh was charged with nine penalties for 103 yards.

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Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin speaks to reporters after the team’s NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

“He’s just got to grow up, man,” Tomlin told reporters, via ESPN. “This is an emotional game, man. These divisional games are big. He got a target on his back because he’s George, he understands that. But he’s got to grow up. He’s got to grow up in a hurry.”

Pickens’ conduct has been under the microscope this season.

He got into a fight with Cleveland Browns defensive back Greg Newsome II in their Thursday night match last month. He was also accused of taking plays off earlier this season.

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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, #14, reacts after being flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct during the second half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

On Sunday, Pickens avoided a costly ejection over his penalties. One of the flags came when he made a “violent gesture” after picking up a first down. NFL officials believed he was making the gun-like gesture that has been seen throughout the league this season, so a penalty was called. Pickens said officials misinterpreted his hand signs.

The other penalty came when he threw a ball at a group of Bengals players in the first quarter.

Pickens said he did not need to do anything differently.

“No, honestly, like I said, I can just keep running my routes, keep playing,” he told reporters in part, adding that he was just happy the team came out on top regardless of “ticky-tack” calls.

Pickens has been the bright spot of the Steelers’ receiving corps this season. He has 55 catches for 850 yards and three touchdowns.

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, #14, celebrates with running back Jaylen Warren, #30, after scoring a touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals during the first half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

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President Biden pardons Hunter; Christmas trees : NPR

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President Biden has signed a full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter Biden. The pardon comes just seven weeks before he leaves office. President Biden granted the clemency despite repeated pledges that he wouldn’t pardon his son. Hunter was convicted of federal gun charges for lying on a federal background check form about his drug addiction when purchasing a gun. In another case, he pleaded guilty to tax offenses for failing to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes. Sentencing was scheduled for later this month, and he could have faced prison time.

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🎧 In a White House statement last night, President Biden said when he took office, he promised not to meddle with the Justice Department. He said has kept his word, even as he said Hunter was “selectively and unfairly prosecuted.” He continued by saying Hunter was charged after opponents in Congress instigated the prosecutions to try to hurt him politically, NPR’s Ryan Lucas tells Up First. In the process, Biden says Hunter was unfairly singled out. Hunter says his mistakes have been used to humiliate him and his family, and he won’t take the clemency for granted. Hunter added he’ll devote his life to helping those who are still sick and suffering.

President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll nominate Kash Patel, a close ally and former national security aide, to serve as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This sets up a move to replace the current director, Chris Wray, who has two years left on his term. Patel has criticized the country’s top law enforcement agency and has been vocal about his plans to change it.

🎧 Patel says he is ready to use law enforcement power to go against those who opposed Trump, including members of Congress, people who prosecuted him and reporters, NPR’s Carrie Johnson says. Trump picked Wray after he fired Jim Comey in 2017. It’s rare to fire an FBI director with time left on his term, but it has happened before, Johnson says. It’s not known if Wray will be fired in January or if he might resign. However, the FBI said over the weekend that Wray is focused on the FBI workforce and protecting Americans from threats.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to “crush” the rebels who made territorial gains in Syria over the weekend. Syria’s 13-year civil war has long been at a stalemate, but this renewed fighting poses the biggest threat to the ruling regime in years. The rebel advancement comes as Russia, a key ally of Syria, is stretched in its war with Ukraine. Here’s what to know about the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and how it pulled off the stunning seizure of Aleppo, Syria’s second most populous city.

🎧 Rebel general Ahmed Homsi tells NPR’s Ruth Sherlock they were able to break through three lines of defense within 72 hours and thought they might be able to carry on to the capital, Damascus. The U.S., Russia and others have designated HTS as a terror organization because some members had links to Al-Qaeda. Sherlock says the group has tried to rebrand itself as a less hardline group in recent years, though it’s still religious and conservative. Sherlock says many Syrians would welcome a rebel takeover because the country is run by a brutal dictatorship. The rebel offensive slowed down yesterday, and the government says it’s taken back some territory in central Syria.

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This picture taken on December 7, 2016 shows Christmas trees in a display room of Sun Xudan’s artificial Christmas tree factory in Yiwu.

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It’s the time of year to pull out Christmas decorations and decide what kind of tree to garnish: real or plastic. With this decision comes the age-old question: Are real Christmas trees or their fake counterparts more eco-friendly? Here’s what studies and environmentalists say.

🎄 The most recent U.S. analysis measured the environmental impact of both types of trees from production to disposal. It considered the netting around real Christmas trees and the water used to keep them alive versus the plastic packaging tape used on boxes and transportation from manufacturers in China for artificial trees.
🎄 The analysis determined that artificial trees are more favorable to the environment if reused for at least five years.
🎄 Environmentalists say it’s worth noting the endgame for both options. Artificial trees aren’t recyclable, while real ones can be mulched and reused for greener purposes.

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A fishing village near Nouakchott, Mauritania. After a severe drought, many of the country’s pastoral nomads turned to the sea for their livelihood.

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Acclaimed photographer George Steinmetz and his drones traveled to 36 countries, 27 U.S. states and five oceans to document food production. The goal: Examine the way food makes its way to feed a constantly growing population. The photos are featured in his latest book, Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food, with accompanying text by journalist Joel K. Bourne Jr., who documents the food-print these practices leave on our environment.

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The town of Gegenbach, Germany, turns its town hall into a giant advent calendar each December. This photo shows the front of the neo-classical town hall at an angle, with each of the 24 window shades drawn up revealing a colorful image. It is evening. There is also a Christmas tree bedecked with lights and a Christmas market in the background.

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Gegenbach, Germany, turns its town hall into a giant Advent calendar each December. Every evening, they raise a window shade to reveal a new picture.
Belgium has become the first country to allow sex workers to sign formal employment contracts granting them access to sick days, maternity pay and pension.
Black Friday shoppers spent a record $10.8 billion on online purchases — over 10% more than last year.

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Jaguars players rip Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair for ‘dumb hit’ on Trevor Lawrence

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The Jacksonville Jaguars may have come up short against the Houston Texans on Sunday, but players made sure they got their licks in after a huge hit that knocked out quarterback Trevor Lawrence.

Lawrence suffered a concussion when he was hit around the head and neck by Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair. Lawrence was sliding during a scramble when Al-Shaair came through and cracked him.

The tackle sparked a brief brouhaha and ended with Al-Shaair and Jaguars cornerback Jarrian Jones being ejected from the game. Jaguars tight end Evan Engram was penalized for unnecessary roughness as well.

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Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, #16, slides down in front of Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, #0, in the second quarter during the second quarter at EverBank Stadium on Dec. 1, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images)

Engram called Al-Shaair’s hit “dirty,” and he felt he had to defend Lawrence at that moment.

“It was just instinct,” he said, via the Jaguars’ site. “It didn’t feel like a clean hit, so just go stick up for him. I saw him sliding, and then I saw the hit. I just knew it was wrong. I knew it was a dirty play.”

Jaguars defensive end Josh Allen-Hines did not like the play either. He did not say whether Al-Shaair should be suspended.

“That was a dumb hit on his part,” Allen-Hines said, via ESPN. “At the end of the day he’s just playing football, but again, the way we’ve changed the rules of how we play, we go over these things.

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, #16, slides for a down as Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, #0, makes a late hit during the second quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union)

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“We talk about these things. We know how to play football. A couple of years ago, that would’ve been a great hit, but now that wasn’t a good play on him. I am not going to sit up there and say, does he deserve to get suspended or not? That’s not my call at that moment. It wasn’t smart.”

Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson said the incident was “a play nobody wants to see in our league.” He added that he expected the NFL to issue fines for those involved in the melee.

Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans lamented Al-Shaair’s hit.

“It’s unfortunate with the hit with Azeez,” he said, via Pro Football Talk. “That’s not what we’re coaching. We want to be smart in everything we do and not hurt the team. … We just have to be smarter when the quarterback is going down. It’s an unfortunate play. It’s not representative of who Azeez is. He’s a smart player and really a great leader for us. We felt his presence not being there, his loss really affected us on the defensive side.

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, #16, leaves the field on a cart after getting injured on a late hit by Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, #0, during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

“It’s not what we’re coaching. I didn’t want to see the melee and all of the aftermath. It’s not what we’re about. It’s not representative of us. I’ll talk to Azeez, address him personally, and we’ll move forward from it.”

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Dozens Killed as Violence Erupts Following Soccer Match in Guinea

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The clashes occurred during a game between the Labe and Nzerekore soccer teams in Nzerekore, the second-largest city in the West African nation.

Houston man accused of killing mother and 2-year-old girl found sleeping in apartment with dead victims

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A Houston man has been arrested and charged after allegedly fatally stabbing a 28-year-old mother and her 2-year-old child.

Kendrick Rayvon Fisher, 29, has been charged with capital murder for the deaths, according to the Houston Police Department.

On Friday at about 3:30 a.m, HPD officers were flagged down and notified that an adult female and child were being held hostage in an apartment, according to a news release.

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Kendrick Rayvon Fisher, 29, has been charged with capital murder for the deaths, according to the Houston Police Department. (Houston Police Department)

When officers entered the third-floor apartment, they found Fisher asleep on the couch. When conducting a safety sweep, they found the victims in the apartment.

The HPD say both victims had multiple stab wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene.

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Kendrick Rayvon Fisher, 29, has been charged with capital murder for the deaths, according to the Houston Police Department. (iStock)

Officers observed injuries consistent with a physical altercation and blood on Fisher’s clothing. Homicide detectives working with the Harris County District Attorney’s office ultimately decided the evidence was enough to charge and book him in the Harris County Jail.

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According to jail records, Fisher was released from prison in December of last year. He served a seven-year sentence for armed robbery and additional time for contraband.

The identities have not been released pending next of kin notification.