News stories you may not hear elsewhere are featured each week on the News Round-Up & Comment broadcast.  Here’s a sample of what Jim presented.  Listeners rounded out the broadcast with their thoughts as well.

–Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointed Judge, ripped into the decision by President Biden to pardon his son Hunter in a filing saying that when the president has brought authority, he cannot rewrite history.  

–The Biden White House is considering preemptive pardons carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing blanket pardons.

–Federal authorities have arrested an Arizona man in San Diego who threatened to put a hole in Trump’s face.

–Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was grilled by Republican Representative Pat Fallon as part of an investigation by the Congressional Task Force set up to examine the two attempts on the life of Donald Trump.  

–The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a congressional staffer on Monday after he was caught trying to smuggle ammo into a House office building.  

–Sunday evening Israeli fighter jets intercepted an Iranian plane over Syria, suspected of transporting weapons to Hezbollah.

–The Israeli military launched a wave of air strikes in Lebanon Monday evening after Hezbollah launched two mortars at the Mount Dov area for the first time since the cease-fire between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group took effect last week.

–Egypt has presented Hamas with an updated proposal to free some of the roughly 100 remaining hostages and initiate a cease-fire in Gaza.

–Iranian state media highlighting Tehran’s decision to activate centrifuges linked to its nuclear program.  

–Israeli/American hostage Omer Neutra is dead.  The news prompted a strong warning from President-elect Trump who wrote a threat to the terrorist group.

–Two U.S. Navy destroyers fought back last weekend against missile attacks aimed at American ships in the Red Sea.  

–South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in a surprise late night address to the nation, citing threats from North Korea and from his political opponents at home, only to back down hours later after spontaneous street protests and a unanimous vote against the decree by furious lawmakers. 

–The South Korean opposition party submitted a bill to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol after he imposed the short period of martial law. 

–Faced with the most significant political turmoil in years, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged Thursday that he would name a new prime minister within the coming days while dismissing calls for his own resignation.

–The Biden administration announced Monday that it was sending 725 million dollars worth of military equipment to Ukraine.