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Iconoclast: Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Narrative Collapsing Jan. 6 was not “an insurrection,” but “a protest that became a riot when a woefully insufficient security plan collapsed,” argues Jonathan Turley at The Hill . Nancy Pelosi’s “House Select Committee to investigate Jan. 6” pushed the narrative that it “ was an attempt to overthrow our democracy by Trump and his supporters,” but “fostered false accounts” and dismissed evidence that “confirmed that Trump did, in fact, offer the deployment of the National Guard in anticipation of the protest.” Now a new report “shows that it was the Defense Department that delayed the eventual deployment of National Guard in the critical hours of the riot.” “None of this means that Trump” is “without fault in this matter,” but “these reports only further highlight what we still do not know about that day.” From the right: Democrats Deaf to Voters “The first step to any recovery is admitting you have a problem,” argues The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley . Yet Democrats “won’t admit that their policies are the cause.” From his “bubble,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom “ordered a special legislative session to ’Trump-proof’ California’s progressive policies, such as its electric-vehicles mandate.” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul “revived a $9 tax on commuters driving into lower Manhattan” days after Trump’s win. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson “is seeking to raise taxes on homeowners” to “pay the city’s soaring pension bills.” Those “high taxes are driving off businesses and residents.” Democrats may “recognize their political problem but their solution is to pour another shot.” Culture critic: Dems’ Disconnect on Trans Debate “In a parallel universe,” snarks The Free Press’ Peter Savodnik , “progressives would be rallying around” Rep. Seth Moulton for expressing fear that trans athletes could injure his daughters in sports. Yet “in this universe,” they “hate him.” Progressives “have called him a ‘Nazi cooperator,’ ‘transphobic,’ and ‘offensive,’ ” and demanded he resign. Tuft University’s poli-sci chairman threatened to bar students from interning in his office. Moulton just sees the “disconnect between the party’s activist base and the tens of millions of voters it counts on to win national elections,” blasting those who won’t “even tolerate debate on such issues.” “The only way forward now, Moulton said, is for the Democratic Party to reclaim its liberal soul — its appetite for arguments.” Science desk: Rx for Real Science at FDA “Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration,” notes Public’s Alex Gutentag . Makary has a “track record of standing up to the pharmaceutical industry” on opioids and other issues and was “right on key issues” during COVID, like community masking and vaccine mandates — where authorities’ errors “severely harmed trust in public health institutions.” In office, “Makary must work to depoliticize the FDA” and ensure it’s “focused on science, high-quality evidence, and thorough safety monitoring” and to end the “conflicts of interest” that are “not the exception at the FDA” but the rule, where a revolving door between the agency and big pharma operates. Only then will the FDA “function like a real regulator again.” Defense beat: NATO Unready for ‘Hybrid War’ “Russia’s hybrid-warfare model — the integration of numerous non-military means of conflict and proxy wars, backed by the threat of military force, to achieve strategic goals” — poses a huge challenge to NATO, which is organized “to deter against an invasion or nuclear attack on Europe,” warns Patrick Hess at UnHerd . Since the Ukraine war began, Moscow has employed an “escalating string” of “low-threshold, non-military and plausibly deniable tactics” against European countries. These include “sabotage and arson, GPS-signal jamming, disinformation campaigns, weaponised people-smuggling, and phone-hacking,” all “deployed to disrupt, confuse, and blur the lines between peace and wartime.” “As Europe prepares to take primary responsibility for its own security, this new order must include a coherent strategy to deal with Moscow’s hybrid threats, including how and when to respond.” — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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Who : No. 1 Oregon Ducks (13-0) vs. No. 8 Ohio State (11-2) When : Wednesday, Jan. 1 Time : 2 p.m. PT Where : Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California TV channel : ESPN Stream : You can watch this game live for FREE with Fubo (free trial) or by signing up for Sling (cheapest streaming plans, $25 off your first month). If you already have cable, you can also watch this game live on Watch ESPN with your cable or satellite provider login information. A 10-2 regular season ended with a humiliating loss to Michigan that kept Ohio State out of the Big Ten championship game. However, three weeks later the Buckeyes rebounded with a blowout of No. 9 seed Tennessee and punched their ticket to the Rose Bowl. At its best, OSU is a legitimate national championship contender and one of the most talented teams in the country. Will Howard is one of the top quarterbacks this season, efficient, accurate and surrounded with elite skill players. TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins might be the best running back tandem in the sport. Jeremiah Smith is the best receiver in college football. A top 10 defense has future NFL players on all three levels. However, Ohio State’s offensive line is hampered by injuries and though Tennessee could not capitalize, Oregon has the talent to do so. The Ducks gained more yards and scored more points on the Buckeyes than any team over the past two years. Few have the firepower to go toe to toe. UO does and proved it already. Third nationally in accuracy (73.2%) and efficiency (173.5), Howard has 29 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also has seven rushing scores and can extend plays with his legs enough to make the receiving corps that much more threatening. Henderson had 10 carries for 87 yards with a 53-yarder in the first meeting with Oregon. He does not have a 100-yard game this season because of the shared workload but is averaging over seven yards per carry. Judkins is up to 839 yards and 10 touchdowns to lead OSU for the season. However, he’s topped 50 yards just twice in the past eight games. The best receiver in the country, Smith has 63 receptions for 1,037 yards and 12 touchdowns plus a rushing score. He’s a generational talent few can contain and had one of his four 100-yard games this season against Oregon. A threat in his own right, Egbuka has 65 catches for 824 yards and nine touchdowns. He had a season-high 10 catches against the Ducks. Defensive captain has 51 tackles with six sacks, one interception, two pass breakups and two forced fumbles. One of the most disruptive defenders in the Big Ten, Tuimoloau has 46 tackles (14 for loss) with eight sacks, two pass breakups and two forced fumbles. He had two sacks against Tennessee. One of the top defensive backs in the country, Downs has 69 tackles (6.5 for loss) with an interception and three pass breakups. Of Ohio State’s last 12 losses, dating back to 2017, it has lost the rushing and turnover battles in seven of those games, including twice to Oregon. OSU lost the rushing battle in four of the other losses and the turnover battle in the lone other loss it won the rushing battle. Ohio State is making its fourth College Football Playoff appearance since 2019. No other school has been to four of the last six CFPs. Ohio State is 4-4 all-time in CFP games but has never played a CFP game at the Rose Bowl. It’s everything anyone would dream up for a playoff game in the Rose Bowl. The shame this year being that this matchup comes in a quarterfinal when it easily could be a national championship matchup. These are likely the two most talented teams in the country. The offenses got the better of the defenses the first time out and likely will again simply because of the depth of talent each side has. Provided the injury situations remain unchanged, Oregon should have a bigger advantage against Ohio State’s offensive line than the first meeting. But this is as evenly matched as any opponent might be with the Ducks this season. Get local news delivered to your inbox!COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences . Biden converted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The inmates include people who were convicted in the slayings of police, military officers and federal prisoners and guards. Others were involved in deadly robberies and drug deals. Three inmates will remain on federal death row: Dylann Roof , convicted of the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; the 2013 Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. Opponents of the death penalty lauded Biden for a decision they'd long sought. Supporters of Donald Trump , a vocal advocate of expanding capital punishment, criticized the move as an assault to common decency just weeks before the president-elect takes office. Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner was killed by an inmate whose death sentence was commuted, said the execution of “the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace.” “The president has done what is right here,” Oliverio said in a statement also issued by the White House, “and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.” Heather Turner, whose mother, Donna Major, was killed in a bank robbery in South Carolina in 2017, called Biden's commutation of the killer's sentence a “clear gross abuse of power” in a Facebook post, adding that the weeks she spent in court with the hope of justice were now “just a waste of time.” “At no point did the president consider the victims,” Turner wrote. “He, and his supporters, have blood on their hands.” There has always been a broad range of opinions on what punishment Roof should face from the families of the nine people killed and the survivors of the massacre at the Mother Emanuel AME Church. Many forgave him, but some say they can’t forget and their forgiveness doesn’t mean they don’t want to see him put to death for what he did. Felicia Sanders survived the shooting shielding her granddaughter while watching Roof kill her son, Tywanza, and her aunt, Susie Jackson. Sanders brought her bullet-torn bloodstained Bible to his sentencing and said then she can’t even close her eyes to pray because Roof started firing during the closing prayer of Bible study that night. In a text message to her lawyer, Andy Savage, Sanders called Biden’s decision to not spare Roof’s life a wonderful Christmas gift. Michael Graham, whose sister, Cynthia Hurd, was killed, told The Associated Press that Roof’s lack of remorse and simmering white nationalism in the country means he is the kind of dangerous and evil person the death penalty is intended for. “This was a crime against a race of people," Graham said. “It didn’t matter who was there, only that they were Black.” But the Rev. Sharon Richer, who was Tywanza Sanders’ cousin and whose mother, Ethel Lance, was killed, criticized Biden for not sparing Roof and clearing out all of death row. She said every time Roof’s case comes up through numerous appeals it is like reliving the massacre all over again. “I need the President to understand that when you put a killer on death row, you also put their victims' families in limbo with the false promise that we must wait until there is an execution before we can begin to heal,” Richer said in a statement. Richer, a board member of Death Penalty Action, which seeks to abolish capital punishment, was driven to tears by conflicting emotions during a Zoom news conference Monday. “The families are left to be hostages for the years and years of appeals that are to come,” Richer said. “I’ve got to stay away from the news today. I’ve got to turn the TV off — because whose face am I going to see?” Biden is giving more attention to the three inmates he chose not to spare, something they all wanted as a part of what drove them to kill, said Abraham Bonowitz, Death Penalty Action’s executive director. “These three racists and terrorists who have been left on death row came to their crimes from political motivations. When Donald Trump gets to execute them what will really be happening is they will be given a global platform for their agenda of hatred,” Bonowitz said. Biden had faced pressure from advocacy organizations to commute federal death sentences, and several praised him for taking action in his final month in office. Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said in a statement that Biden “has shown our country — and the rest of the world — that the brutal and inhumane policies of our past do not belong in our future.” Republicans, including Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, on the other hand, criticized the move — and argued its moral ground was shaky given the three exceptions. “Once again, Democrats side with depraved criminals over their victims, public order, and common decency,” Cotton wrote on X. “Democrats can’t even defend Biden’s outrageous decision as some kind of principled, across-the-board opposition to the death penalty since he didn’t commute the three most politically toxic cases.” Liz Murrill, Louisiana's Republican attorney general, criticized the commuted sentence of Len Davis, a former New Orleans policeman convicted of orchestrating the killing of a woman who had filed a complaint against him. “We can’t trust the Feds to get justice for victims of heinous crimes, so it’s long past time for the state to get it done,” the tough-on-crime Republican said in a written statement to the AP. Two men whose sentences were commuted were Norris Holder and Billie Jerome Allen, on death row for opening fire with assault rifles during a 1997 bank robbery in St. Louis, killing a guard, 46-year-old Richard Heflin. Holder’s attorney, Madeline Cohen, said in an email that Holder, who is Black, was sentenced to death by an all-white jury. She said his case “reflects many of the system’s flaws,” and thanked Biden for commuting his sentence. “Norris’ case exemplifies the racial bias and arbitrariness that led the President to commute federal death sentences,” Cohen said. “Norris has always been deeply remorseful for the pain his actions caused, and we hope this decision brings some measure of closure to Richard Heflin’s family.” Swenson reported from Seattle. Associated Press writers Jim Salter in O'Fallon, Missouri, and Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, contributed to this report.

Trae Young leads Hawks past Raptors 136-107; Toronto has season-high 31 turnovers TORONTO — Trae Young had a double-double as the Atlanta Hawks routed the struggling Toronto Raptors 136-107 on Sunday. Young had 34 points and 10 assists as Atlanta (18-15) won its fourth game in a row. John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press Dec 29, 2024 5:52 PM Dec 29, 2024 6:05 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young (11) fouls Toronto Raptors guard A.J. Lawson (9) during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn TORONTO — Trae Young had a double-double as the Atlanta Hawks routed the struggling Toronto Raptors 136-107 on Sunday. Young had 34 points and 10 assists as Atlanta (18-15) won its fourth game in a row. He played only 32 minutes as both teams rested their starters with the game well in hand for the Hawks. De'Andre Hunter came off Atlanta's bench for 22 points. Clint Capela had a double-double with 13 rebounds and 11 points. Scottie Barnes had 19 points, eight rebounds and five assists in 35 minutes of play as Toronto (7-26) dropped its 10th straight game. RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., scored 17 points with six rebounds and four assists in 30 minutes. Toronto saw an influx of talent to its rotation for the game. Centre Jakob Poeltl returned to the Raptors' starting lineup after missing four games with a strained his groin. He finished with 13 points and six rebounds. Veteran forward Bruce Brown had 12 points and three rebounds off the bench in his season debut after having arthroscopic surgery over the summer. Rookie guards Ja’Kobe Walter (illness) and Jamal Shead (knee contusion) also returned. Point guard Immanuel Quickley (partially torn UCL) remained out. Takeaways Hawks: A 13-2 run in the third quarter blew the game open for Atlanta, which led by as many as 22 points in the period. The Hawks dominated in most facets of the game, including fast-break points (30 to Toronto's 10) and bench points (57 to Toronto's 49). Raptors: It was one of the worst three-point shooting performances of the season for Toronto. The Raptors went seven for 24 from beyond the arc for 29.2 per cent. Toronto made just six threes in a 115-107 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Oct. 25. It was also a higher percentage than the 24.4 per cent they shot in a 129-92 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Dec. 5. Key moment Brown went up for a one-handed dunk with 1:28 left in the first quarter. When he slammed it down in front of Toronto's bench his teammates exploded onto the floor, celebrating the athletic play after the 28-year-old's season was delayed for 31 games by knee surgery. Key stat Toronto turned over the ball on each of its first five possessions. Taking care of the ball has been an issue all season and the Raptors struggled to recover after that start, giving up the ball 31 times for 30 points in the game. Their previous season high had been 27 in that same win over Philadelphia on Oct. 25. Up next Toronto: The Raptors wrap up 2024 with a visit to the NBA champion Boston Celtics on Tuesday. Atlanta: The Hawks fly to Colorado to face the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 29, 2024. John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Basketball Young scores 34 as Hawks beat Raptors 136-107, hand Raptors 10th consecutive loss Dec 29, 2024 5:43 PM Haliburton scores 31 points as Pacers rebound from 37-point loss to Celtics by winning rematch Dec 29, 2024 5:40 PM Anthony hits winning layup with 1.3 seconds left, Magic complete 21-point rally to beat Nets 102-101 Dec 29, 2024 4:14 PM