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1 month agoThe Houthis appear to have struck Israel’s Ben Gurion airport with a missile.
The missile launched from Yemen by the Houthi armed group has struck about 550 metres (1,804ft) from the main control tower of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport and about 650 metres (2,132ft) from the nearest aircraft parking area, according to Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, Sanad.
Amid long, uncomfortable pauses, Joe Biden struggled to recall when his son died, when he left office as vice president, what year Donald Trump was elected or why he had classified documents he shouldn’t have had, according to audio Axios obtained of his October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur.
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The audio also appears to validate Hur’s assertion that jurors in a trial likely would have viewed Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Partly based on that determination, Hur decided not to prosecute Biden for improper possession of classified documents, angering Republicans because Trump was facing charges in his own classified document scandal then. Democrats and Biden’s White House blasted Hur for his observations about Biden. They repeatedly insisted he was “sharp” and that Hur was politically motivated. But the audio from the six hours of interviews indicates he and co-counsel Marc Krickbaum were respectful and friendly.
YouTube link (tough to listen to tbh)