News Wrap:Trump says he will cancel Biden’s executive actions signed with autopen
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In the day's other news, President Trump also said today he would cancel all executive actions that former President Biden signed using an auto pen. |
| 0:09.3 | That's a device that replicates someone's signature. |
| 0:12.1 | Both Democratic and Republican presidents have used autopens, including Mr. Trump, though he says he's used it only for unimportant papers. |
| 0:20.5 | The Justice Department legal opinion, back decades authorized its use. |
| 0:25.3 | President Trump had previously ordered an investigation into his predecessor's use of the device, |
| 0:30.2 | which Biden months ago said was a distraction. |
| 0:33.6 | And Mr. Trump said on social media that he plans to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras. |
| 0:40.7 | In 2024, U.S. court convicted Hernandez on drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced him to 45 years in prison. |
| 0:49.0 | Hernandez served two terms as Honduran president from 2014 until 2022. |
| 0:56.5 | In the same post, Mr. Trump threw his support behind the nation's conservative presidential candidate and said that if he doesn't win, |
| 1:01.2 | he'll stop sending aid to the Central American nation. Police in Hong Kong have arrested |
| 1:06.2 | eight more people involved with renovating the apartment complex that caught fire earlier this |
| 1:10.7 | week, |
| 1:11.3 | killing at least 128 people. The massive blaze wasn't fully extinguished until this morning, |
| 1:17.1 | some 40 hours after it started. Now firefighters are searching apartment by apartment with close to |
| 1:23.0 | 200 people still missing. That includes nearly 90 bodies that haven't been identified yet. |
| 1:28.3 | One former resident pointed out the charred remains of her home and said she's worried about her neighbors. |
| 1:38.3 | My family is okay. We have many relatives, so we're fine. But we don't know if others have anyone looking after them. |
| 1:46.0 | I really want to put down my phone and not look at any news, not read any information. |
| 1:52.0 | But I can't. |
| 1:53.0 | My heart just feels so heavy. |
| 1:56.0 | Authorities say the fire started on scaffolding on the lower levels of one of the buildings |
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