Golfer Joaquin Niemann helps raise $2.1 million to save his infant cousin's life
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Joaquin Niemann discusses the birth of his cousin Rafita Calderon who was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and the fund raising efforts to collect the $2.1 million required for the world's most expensive drug, Zolgensma to save his life.
It's been a whirlwind six months on the course for the Santiago native and a series of outstanding results have seen the 22-year-old break into the world's top-30 for the first time. It's events at home in Chile, however, that will define this past year for Niemann.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
In the days and weeks leading up Hunter Biden’s trial on felony gun charges, President Joe Biden made little attempt to distance himself from his son. Instead, Hunter Biden was seen at the White House and in Delaware at his father’s side amid what the president’s allies acknowledge is a difficult moment for both men.