What’s on the front page of USA Today?
The front page of USA Today 02.12.24 features a picture of the the Tennessee family behind landmark case on trans health.
- Are bans on gender-affirming care for minors constitutional? Supreme Court to decide. The Supreme Court will wade into the controversial topic of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender people under the age of 18, taking up a case that could be a flashpoint in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
- Deadliest hurricane season in years ends. Christine B. Davis was born a few weeks before the 1914 hurricane season started and spent her entire life within 50 miles of the Gulf of Mexico, where a relentless stream of hurricanes and tropical storms strike the coasts of Texas and Louisiana where she lived for 110 years.
‘Biden pardons Hunter’ & ‘Rebels capture Aleppo’ – Paper Talk USA
The US front pages report on a variety of domestic news with President Joe Biden issuing a ‘full and unconditional’ pardon for his son Hunter Biden leading much of the American press.
The news has been met with widespread backlash across the right and left as Biden had previously promised he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence. Hunter Biden was set to face sentencing this month on federal felony gun and tax convictions
President Biden said his U-turn was due to how unfairly Hunter had been treated, he said although he believed in the justice system, “politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice”.
A few major papers cover the Syrian rebel forces seizing control of Aleppo – the country’s second-largest city.
