Beating The Winter Blues 🧠

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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🤝 What exactly is a presidential pardon? And why are President Donald Trump's pardon choices rubbing some people the wrong way? 🍑 What happened with the Georgia runoff elections? Let’s find out, and learn what it means for the rest of the country! 🐺 Learn all about red wolves with a special listener-submitted fun fact! 🧠 What are the winter blues? And what does the sun have to do with your brain chemistry? Plus! See if you can guess the answer to the Trivia Question of the Day: A Chinese spacecraft recently brought what back to Earth? 🤝 Learn all about how presidential pardons work 🐺 Do a deep dive into the captivating world of Red Wolves 🌓 Explore the incredible lunar sample that Chinese robot Chang'e 5 just brought back to Earth! 🎇 Join us on Instagram Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	What is a presidential pardon? What does the sun have to do with your brain? And what did a Chinese
0:07.5	spacecraft just bring back from the moon? I'm Bethany Van Delft, and we'll get into all this and more
0:13.6	on today's The Ten News. The showware and the time it takes to count all the holes in a block of
0:19.1	moon cheese, we find out what's up in the
0:21.2	world. Okay, let's get into the 10 news.
0:25.9	10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:33.0	As the transition from one president to the next approaches, you may be hearing about presidential
0:39.2	pardons. That brings us to our The 10 News Definition Breakdown.
0:48.5	A pardon is a power given to the president by the Constitution that allows them to grant
0:54.1	clemency,
0:55.2	which means absolving someone from punishment for a crime.
0:59.1	The power to grant federal pardons
1:00.9	was created by the writers of the Constitution
1:03.7	as a check imbalance on the federal criminal justice system.
1:07.4	Checks imbalances are the way the US government
1:09.9	make sure none of the three branches of
1:11.9	government, the legislative, the judicial, or the executive becomes too powerful. So it's not a big
1:19.2	deal for an outgoing president to issue pardons, but this president's pardon picks have raised some
1:25.9	serious concerns based on the offenses.
1:28.7	Uh-oh.
1:29.5	And folks are asking if he's going to try to preemptively pardon himself before leaving office.
1:35.8	And if that's actually allowed under the Constitution.
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