🪑 Plus: A favorite chair | Monday, December 30, 2024
| | | | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Dec 30, 2024 | | 🕶️ Happy New Year's Eve eve! Today's newsletter, edited by Alex Fitzpatrick, is 490 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Teen drinking hits record low | | | ![]() Data: Monitoring the Future. Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Teen alcohol and drug use reached notable lows this year, Axios' April Rubin reports from the University of Michigan's annual Monitoring the Future study. - Why it matters: Delaying substance use until after adolescence could decrease addiction, researchers say.
By the numbers: - 🍺 Alcohol: 42% of 12th graders reported consumption, down from 75% in 1997. Among 10th graders, consumption fell from 65% to 26%.
- 🌿 Marijuana: Consumption levels are the lowest they have been in the past three decades: 26% for 12th graders and 16% for 10th graders.
- 💨 Nicotine vaping: 12th-grade use was 21%, compared to 35% in 2020 and 19% in 2017.
📈 Yes, but: 6% of 12th graders said they use nicotine pouches, up from 3% in 2023. |     | | | | | | 2. 🛟 Trump throws lifeline to Speaker | | | | Speaker Mike Johnson and President-elect Trump at the Army-Navy football game in Landover, Md., on Dec. 14. Photo: Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images President-elect Trump has endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson in his reelection bid, Axios' Andrew Solender reports. - Why it matters: Trump's backing could help Johnson quash a rebellion led by right-wing hardliners incensed by this month's spending fight.
💬 What they're saying: "Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN," Trump wrote on Truth Social. In a post on X, Johnson said he's "honored and humbled" by Trump's support. - 😬 Johnson is set for a 219-215 majority. That leaves room for just one GOP defection if he's to keep the gavel.
Go deeper. | | | | | | | | 3. 🛬 South Korea crash mysteries | | | | Police at the crash scene at Muan International Airport in South Korea today. Photo: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images Video shows a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 suffered an apparent bird strike yesterday in South Korea — then attempted a belly landing before exploding, writes Axios' Alex Fitzpatrick, who's a pilot. - The crash killed 179 of the 181 occupants. Emergency workers pulled two crew members to safety.
🔍 The investigation will likely focus on several key questions: - Why did the pilots immediately make a second landing attempt, rather than taking time to burn fuel, run checklists and troubleshoot the problem?
- Why did the pilots attempt to land without landing gear or flaps?
- Why were the pilots attempting to land at an unusually high speed?
- Why did they touch down well beyond the normal point?
⬛️ What's next: Investigators have found the "black boxes," which may shed light on the crucial four minutes between the apparent bird strike and the disastrous landing attempt. | | | | | | | | 4. 🪑1 fun thing: Carter's favorite chair | | | | Photo: Brumby Chair Company Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's fondness for Georgia-based Brumby Chair Company's rockers earned the chairs a place in White House history, Axios Atlanta's Thomas Wheatley writes. - In 1972, when Carter was Georgia's governor, four Brumby rockers were delivered to the Governor's Mansion. The Carters fell in love.
When the couple moved into the White House in 1977, Rosalynn ordered five Jumbo chairs. - The family placed them on the Truman Balcony overlooking the South Lawn. They were used during family moments and important meetings.
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