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Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame.

By Sarah Ellison
Jan 10, 2025 2:22 pm - When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer in 2009, it put fact-checkers on the map. Donald Trump’s MAGA movement gave them plenty of work. Now, Meta’s fact-checking retrenchment threatens to hollow out the industry.
As Los Angeles burns, Elon Musk stokes partisan outrage

By Pranshu Verma, Will Oremus, Trisha Thadani
Jan 10, 2025 2:12 pm - As flames have engulfed large swaths of Los Angeles, Elon Musk has been inundating his 212 million followers with posts casting blame for the blazes on Democrats and diversity policies, amplifying narratives that have taken hold among far-right activists and Republican leaders, including President-elect Donald Trump.
Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdown

By GISELA SALOMON
Jan 10, 2025 2:07 pm - About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration policies.
US added a strong 256,000 jobs in December as unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%

By PAUL WISEMAN
Jan 10, 2025 7:58 am - U.S. hiring picked up unexpectedly in December as employers added 256,000 jobs, another sign of the economy’s resilience in the face of high interest rates.
Alec Baldwin sues for malicious prosecution after judge dismissed case of fatal ‘Rust’ set shooting

By MORGAN LEE
Jan 10, 2025 7:45 am - Actor Alec Baldwin has filed a civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie “Rust.”
The Supreme Court is considering a possible TikTok ban. Here's what to know about the case

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jan 10, 2025 7:19 am - The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app's fate in their hands.
Winds that have fueled LA fires are expected to calm, giving firefighters a chance to corral flames

By JAIMIE DING, JULIE WATSON and JOHN SEEWER
Jan 10, 2025 6:45 am - Firefighters hoped for a break Friday from fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighborhoods and setting the nation's second-largest city on edge.
At inflection point, Pentagon chief holds final forum for Ukraine aid

By Missy Ryan, Isabelle Khurshudyan
Jan 10, 2025 6:27 am - RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — More than two dozen times since Russia’s 2022 invasion, President Joe Biden’s Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin, has gone around the table with hi...
Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case, while calling it ‘despicable’

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Jan 10, 2025 5:53 am - President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.
New LA-area fire prompts more evacuations while over 10,000 structures lost to the 2 biggest blazes

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, JULIE WATSON and JOHN SEEWER
Jan 09, 2025 10:59 pm - LOS ANGELES — The two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area have burned at least 10,000 homes, buildings and other structures, officials said Thursday as they u...

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