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But President Biden’s announcement Sunday that he had issued a sweeping pardon for his son Hunter — for any crimes he may have committed over a decade — suddenly left the president’s allies on the defensive.

The sweeping pardon covers any potential federal crimes that 54-year-old Hunter may have committed over the course of a decade.

But on Sunday, the president issued a controversial sweeping pardon, saying his son had been subject to attacks from his political rivals.

Five days after Clinton was inaugurated, he announced he was creating a task force to devise a sweeping plan to provide universal healthcare.

Microbiologists say a broad ban would be destructive, sweeping up much routine virology research and hindering efforts to understand whether the H5N1 virus infecting U.S. cows will jump to humans.