Behind The Story: Kids Sleeping In CYFD Offices
How did it come to this? What's being done to fix it? This week on the New Mexico News Insiders Podcast, KRQE Investigative Reporter Ann Pierret joins Chris and Gabby to break down what her most recent report uncovered about CYFD's growing crisis, the strain on staff, and efforts to add more foster care support. Watch Ann's investigation here on KRQE.com.
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Hunter Biden Is Unrepentant
About two hours into the Gen Z influencer Andrew Callaghan's interview with Hunter Biden, I had a moment of piercing clarity: Here is a Democrat you could put on Joe Rogan's podcast. Joe Biden's surviving son became MAGA world's favorite punching bag because of his suspect business dealings in Ukraine, his infamous laptop, and his presidential pardon for tax and gun offenses. But in temperament and vocabulary, Hunter is MAGA to the core. During last year's presidential campaign, Donald Trump's interviews with Rogan, Theo Von, and Logan Paul resonated with many young men. I can imagine that same audience watching Hunter tell Callaghan about his crack addiction and thinking: Give this guy a break. One of the most upvoted comments on the YouTube video is from a poster saying that the interview prompted him to go to rehab. Since their crushing loss in November, Democrats have wondered how they can win the battle for attention and reach voters who find them weak, remote, and passive. Their elected officials have been tiptoeing toward using the occasional cuss word in their public appearances, like teenagers cautiously puffing a joint for the first time and hoping not to cough. Hunter Biden, by contrast, went straight for line after line of the hard stuff. Donald Trump is a 'fucking dictator thug,' and Democrats should fight against his deportation agenda because 'we fought a fucking revolution against a king, based on two things in particular: habeas corpus and due process. And we're so willing to give them up?' Hunter's cadences and mannerisms are eerily reminiscent of his father's, except where Joe would say 'malarkey,' Hunter says: 'I don't have to be fucking nice.' At times, he sounds like his father's id, saying the things the ex-president would like to say but cannot. Clearly, Republicans have not cornered the market in gossipy aggression, although in both their and Hunter's cases, most of that aggression is directed toward the Democrats and the media. In the Callaghan interview, which was released on Monday, the younger Biden has no time for James Carville ('hasn't run a race in 40 fucking years'), George Clooney ('not a fucking actor'), or CNN's Jake Tapper ('completely irrelevant'). His greatest animus is reserved for his party's anti–Joe Biden faction, such as the men behind Pod Save America, who are 'four white millionaires that are dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago, living in Beverly fucking Hills.' If you grew up in the pre-Trump media era, your response to this might be: Hunter, you have also made money off of your association with a president. But America has long since passed the point where allegations of hypocrisy are a useful political attack. Most voters now think that all politicians are hypocrites, but at least some of them are open about it. Everything that was bananas about Hunter's interview by old media standards—the insults, the frank discussion of drugs, the weird segues, the desire to lean into controversy—had previously been embraced by the Trump campaign. Last year, Trump's most human moment was talking with Theo Von about his brother's death from alcoholism, an exchange that also featured Von, who is now sober, joking about the low quality of cocaine these days and Trump nodding solemnly, as if this were something his tariff regime might address. In the interview with Callaghan, Hunter Biden talks about how making crack requires only 'a mayonnaise jar, cocaine, and baking soda.' Then there's the open shilling for sponsors. In Trump's preelection interview with Logan Paul, bottles of the YouTuber's energy drink, Prime, sat prominently on the table in front of the hosts, and Paul did an ad for them right after the section on Gaza. Callaghan pushes the self-promotion even further. He interrupts his Hunter Biden interview with inserted segments in which Callaghan faces the camera and pitches his other work, including a documentary on adult babies. (Don't make me explain. It's exactly what you fear.) Even more bizarrely, Callaghan surrounds these ads with questions to Hunter about their subject matter. 'Some days I identify as a baby,' Hunter responds, gamely, before suggesting that his host should ask the adult baby-diaper lovers if they vote Democrat or Republican. Then he hints at the conspiracy theory that Trump wears a diaper, a cut so deep that even Callaghan doesn't get it. You don't have to like it, but this is the media world now—podcast chats like this are where elections are won and lost, just as much as at the televised town hall, on the front page of the New York Post, or in the stately sitdown with 60 Minutes. The minimum bar for the next Democratic candidate for president should be the ability to react, live on camera, in a plausibly normal fashion, to the existence of adult baby-diaper lovers. Hunter Biden is on something of an 'I was right' tour. Callaghan recorded the interview last month in Delaware. The former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison also released an interview with Hunter on Monday, covering many of the same topics. According to Original Sin, the book by Tapper and Alex Thompson on the last days of the Biden presidency, the president's son wanted to do an interview tour to promote his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, about his grief over the death of his brother, Beau, and his drug relapse. Hunter 'planned to do a book tour through South Carolina, stopping at famed Black churches to talk about his crack addiction, but Biden's advisers pushed back,' Tapper and Thompson write. 'Hunter relented.' I now wonder whether Hunter's instincts were correct for once. He shows Callaghan the bullish charm of the narcissist. Bad things happen to him. Bad things might also happen to those around him, but, in his telling, he isn't really their cause. That portrait is hard to square with the available facts. Many people manage to grieve for their brother without starting an affair with his widow, or introducing that widow to crack. Many presidents' children have wrestled with the inevitable allegations of nepotism that their careers have created; few have so obviously traded on their father's power as Hunter did with the Ukrainian company Burisma, for which he lobbied when his father was vice president. (His defense for this is that Burisma wasn't a big deal, that he also worked for many charitable organizations, and that in any case the Trump sons and Jared Kushner are worse.) He plays dumb on the criticisms of the inflated sales price of his paintings, feigning disbelief that anyone would buy one to curry favor with the president. And while constantly stressing his status as a son, brother, father, and grandfather, Hunter never mentions his treatment of Navy, the little girl whose conception he cannot remember and whom he initially refused to acknowledge or financially assist. In American Woman, a history of first ladies, the journalist Katie Rogers reports that many staff members in the Biden White House were upset by Joe and Jill Biden's unquestioned backing of their son when he refused to support Navy without a paternity test. 'Their devotion to keeping Hunter safe, people close to them said, was worth enduring the onslaught of criticism from both Republicans and Democrats,' Rogers writes. From the January 2025 issue: The 'mainstream media' has already lost Hunter's perpetual refusal to be held accountable is clearly a character trait that many people are prepared to overlook. But then, when did a populist ever accept responsibility for anything? He has understood that to succeed in the modern media environment, you should throw out intimate details about your life in a way that looks like total, raw, unfiltered honesty while glossing over the raw, unfiltered details that reflect poorly on you. If you really screw up, then promise to atone in a fashion that does not inhibit your life or career—rehab, not a jail sentence. Just look at Hunter's interviewer for more evidence that this works: In 2023, Callaghan was accused by multiple women of overstepping their sexual boundaries. He thanked his accusers for speaking out, said he had 'always taken no for an answer,' pledged to attend a 12-step program, and carried on with his life. Americans love someone who has been born again, and the younger Biden is charming enough to attribute all his past behavior to the Bad Old Hunter, while spinning a yarn about how, when he met his second wife, Melissa, she simply told him to stop smoking crack—and because of his love for her, he did. The long podcast interview works so well for public figures—or at least, the ones able to master its idiosyncrasies—because hearing anyone's life story usually puts you on their side. When Hunter describes his 'public humiliation,' even a minimally empathetic viewer will reflect on how horrifically his privacy was invaded, and how none of us would react well to our worst moments being splashed across the internet. Incredibly, Callaghan manages to turn the laptop saga into yet another ad, cutting away to promote Incogni, a service that removes people's information from data brokers: 'So, obviously Hunter here is somebody who's dealt with a complete lack of privacy in the past couple years, but you don't need to be the president's son to have your data leaked,' he tells viewers. 'In fact, it's most likely happening to you right now.' Funnily enough, the pioneer of the endless-interview podcast, Joe Rogan, doesn't do personalized ad reads like this. Maybe that's because he doesn't need to—his first Spotify deal was reportedly worth more than $200 million —but maybe it's also that he's 57, and remembers a world where content and ads were divided by a holy wall. In almost every other respect, though, Callaghan is one of Rogan's children. This is not an adversarial interview; at one point, he tells Hunter, 'I'm on your team.' In three hours of conversation, Callaghan barely interrupts. When Hunter wants to go off on a digression about the Dred Scott case or the anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he is allowed to do so. The most decisive, and probably irreversible, shift in the post-Rogan American political conversation is evident in how both Callaghan and his guest talk in conspiratorial terms: the 'Christofascist incel,' in Hunter's words, who gave the laptop hard drive to Rudy Giuliani; the Mossad's alleged intelligence about the October 7 attack before it happened. Yet Callaghan also points out how profitable online conspiracies are for everyone involved. He says that he believes that 'most mainstream conspiracy theories, flat earth, chemtrails, QAnon, all that stuff is deliberate misinformation to convince dumb people that they're doing important research and keep them away from the truth.' Callaghan goes on, 'So maybe the conspiracy isn't, you know, Russia telling people what to do and how to think. It's just profit-incentivized content creators farming outrage through these ridiculous conspiracies.' He's spinning out a meta–conspiracy theory. But if this argument can't deradicalize the extremely online, nothing can. Headlines about the interview have focused on Hunter's dead-ender defense of his father's candidacy. He admits that his father underperformed onstage at the catastrophic June debate, but he blames it on Biden's staff giving him an Ambien the night before. (Oh, look: another Biden with no apparent agency over bad decisions.) Denial is not just a river in Egypt, but the fluid coursing through Hunter's veins. 'He flew around the world, basically the mileage he could have flown around the world three times,' the younger Biden said of his father in his interview with Callaghan. 'He's 81 years old. He's tired as shit.' So advanced age does affect someone's ability to undertake a grueling presidential campaign? Good to know. 'We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,' Hunter told Jaime Harrison. 'That's my position.' This is a ridiculous position; voters were already worried about Biden's age, and the debate merely allowed the elites to act on those fears. But who is going to judge a son for refusing to admit his father's flaws? Helen Lewis: Finally, someone said it to Joe Rogan's face So far, more than 2 million people have watched the interview with Callaghan on YouTube, and many more will consume it through extracts on social media. Maybe clips of a president's son defending habeas corpus and mentioning a crack dealer named Bicycles is what the attention economy demands. Perhaps the Democrats, instead of spending another $20 million on their 'man problem,' should find a candidate who has less baggage than Hunter Biden, but can attack Republican policies with his level of straightforward, pummeling aggression. Maybe someone who was only addicted to one of the more genteel drugs, or only slept with their cousin's widow. But also someone who can talk about the creepiness of Stephen Miller, and who can attack the greed of the Trump sons ('They're selling gold telephones and sneakers and $2 billion investments in golf courses, and selling tickets to the White House for investment into their memecoin') without fretting about being accused of hypocrisy. Maybe even one who can say that they believe in a two-state solution in the Middle East—but also that if Benjamin Netanyahu really did slow-walk the release of hostages for his political gain, that would make him a 'monster.' But don't just take my word for it—behold the conservative activist Christopher Rufo. 'Might be an unpopular opinion, but I find Hunter Biden to be an utterly compelling anti-hero,' he posted on X after watching the interview. 'He is honest about his own flaws and sees right through the corruption and artifice of the elite Dem milieu.' Mike Solana, the author of the anti-woke, tech-focused Pirate Wires newsletter, agreed. 'If this were a trump son he'd be a MAGA folk hero,' he wrote on X. This is true. Personally, I would prefer that Hunter Biden show some regret for his actions and how they undermined his father's presidency, and how that helped return Trump to office. But I would settle for Hunter going on Joe Rogan's podcast to show MAGA-curious voters that the person at the center of so many conspiracy theories is a real person, not a shadowy villain.
Newsweek
a day ago
- Newsweek
Bryan Kohberger Sentencing This Week—Here's What to Expect
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Bryan Kohberger will appear in court this week for sentencing after pleading guilty to the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger this month pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary related to the stabbing deaths of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, as part of a plea agreement. Under the agreement, prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty. The sentencing will begin at 9 a.m. local time on Wednesday at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise. The Context On November 13, 2022, Mogen, Goncalves, Kernodle and Chapin were found stabbed to death in an off-campus residence. Kohberger was arrested in connection with the killings on December 30, 2022. The case received significant media coverage and public interest as proceedings unfolded in the years following the killings. Bryan Kohberger, charged with killing four University of Idaho students, appears at the Ada County Courthouse on July 2, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. Bryan Kohberger, charged with killing four University of Idaho students, appears at the Ada County Courthouse on July 2, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool What To Know The Wednesday hearing is expected to last the entire day, with breaks scheduled throughout. The proceedings will be livestreamed on the court's YouTube page. District Judge Steven Hippler said the hearing could extend into a second day to accommodate all victim impact statements. Family members of the victims will have the opportunity to address the court regarding the sentence and the impact of the crime. "What I expect to see is some very upset family members giving their victim impact statements, talking about how unhappy they are that Kohberger's life has been spared," Neama Rahmani, former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Newsweek. Kohberger is expected to be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences on the murder charges and 10 years on the burglary charge, according to the terms of the plea deal. "It is going to be somewhat anticlimactic, because we know what the result is going to be," Rahmani said. "Kohberger is going to be sentenced to life." Under Idaho law, Kohberger will be given the right of allocution, the opportunity to speak before a sentence is imposed. He also can choose not to make a statement. "He's not going to say anything, and this is why: There still is the rare but theoretical possibility that he is charged by the feds and faces the death penalty. I don't think that's going to happen. That rarely happens," Rahmani said. President Donald Trump referenced the case in a Truth Social post on Monday. "Bryan Kohberger, who was responsible, in Idaho, for the deaths of four wonderful young souls, has made a plea bargain deal in order to avoid the Death Penalty. These were vicious murders, with so many questions left unanswered," Trump wrote. Rahmani said the Department of Justice (DOJ) typically does not step in unless there is "substantial federal interest" not addressed in the state case. "I'm not saying the DOJ is making decisions for political reasons, but I mean, the practical reality is if there's enough support with Trump or high-level officials within the DOJ, that's a possibility," Rahmani said. Rahmani said he does not think Kohberger will give an explanation for the killings if he decides to speak. "I know that the big question everyone has is, 'Why did he do it?' I don't think we'll ever know, because I don't think there's any answer that can be given that may not inflame the feelings of the victims' families," Rahmani said. What People Are Saying Neama Rahmani, former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Newsweek: "If we do hear anything from Kohberger, I think it's going to be an apology. I don't think we're going to hear an explanation as to why he did it. Motive isn't an element of the crime. It's not something the prosecution needs to prove or the defense needs to explain." President Donald Trump, on Truth Social: "While Life Imprisonment is tough, it's certainly better than receiving the Death Penalty, but before Sentencing, I hope the Judge makes Kohberger, at a minimum, explain why he did these horrible murders. There are no explanations, there is no NOTHING." What Happens Next After sentencing, Kohberger is expected to be transferred into the custody of the Idaho Department of Correction, where he will undergo evaluation to determine his facility assignment, USA TODAY reported. The process could take up to two weeks. "It's a matter of security, it's a matter of space, it's a matter of the sentence," Rahmani said. "Once a sentence is determined, it's up to the corrections officers to determine where he's going to be." Do you have a story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have any questions about this story? Contact LiveNews@
New York Post
a day ago
- New York Post
American dad DUPED into fighting on Russian frontlines after family fled US
An American dad has been duped into fighting on the front lines of Russia's army. Derek Huffman and his wife, DeAnna, moved their three daughters, ages 10, 11 and 12, across the globe to avoid 'woke ideology" in the US in March. He joined the Russian military in the hopes of expediting citizenship for his family. Despite being assured he would serve a non-combat role – either as a welder or a correspondent – his wife DeAnna claimed in a since-deleted YouTube video that he's being 'thrown to the wolves.' Here's everything we know about the 'anti-woke' family who fled the US to Russia – and the dangerous turn of events they didn't see coming.
