Nation and World
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Firefighters race to contain Los Angeles wildfires with menacing winds forecast to return
Jan 11, 2025 3:21 pm - LOS ANGELES — Firefighters raced Saturday to cut off spreading wildfires before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward the world famous J. Paul...
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Biden levies new sanctions against Russian energy sector, but it's up to Trump whether to keep them
Jan 10, 2025 8:29 pm - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration announced Friday that it's expanding sanctions against Russia's critically important energy sector, unveiling a new effo...
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Biden to deliver prime-time farewell to nation on Wednesday from Oval Office
Jan 10, 2025 8:27 pm - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office, five days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in. ...
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Putin is open to meet with Trump after inauguration, Kremlin says
Jan 10, 2025 8:19 pm - The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin is open to a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump after he is sworn in to office on Jan. 20. Kremlin spokesman ...
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Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a federal law that could force TikTok to shut down on Jan. 19
Jan 10, 2025 6:16 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media progra...
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Powerful winter storm dumps heavy snow, causing flight delays, slick roads and school closings
Jan 10, 2025 4:58 pm - ATLANTA — A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward into southern U.S. states Friday, m...
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Milo Ventimiglia, Mel Gibson, Miles Teller among stars who’ve lost homes in Los Angeles firesJan 10, 2025 4:23 pm - The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of “This Is Us” star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be’s newly installed crib.
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Trump’s impact on wind sector limited by sole term, Taiwan says
Jan 10, 2025 2:28 pm - Taiwan’s economic minister said the impact of Donald Trump in certain areas will be somewhat limited because he can only serve a single term, rare frank comments that sho...
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Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame.
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.
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As Los Angeles burns, Elon Musk stokes partisan outrage
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.