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From Carter's funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history

By TED ANTHONY
Jan 09, 2025 12:25 pm - Look at their faces — formal, etched with experience, laden with the weight of momentous decisions. Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century away.
Jimmy Carter lauded for his humility and service in Washington before his return to Georgia

By BILL BARROW
Jan 09, 2025 9:26 am - Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed.
Farming tech is on display at CES as companies showcase their green innovations and initiatives

By RIO YAMAT
Jan 09, 2025 8:54 am - When Russell Maichel started growing almonds, walnuts and pistachios in the 1980s, he didn't own a cellphone. Now, a fully autonomous tractor drives through his expansive orchard, spraying pesticides and fertilizer to protect the trees that have for decades filled him with an immense sense of pride.
Firefighters battle devastating Los Angeles wildfires as winds calm somewhat

By MANUEL VALDES, HALLIE GOLDEN and JULIE WATSON
Jan 09, 2025 7:43 am - Firefighters battled early Thursday to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes.
It’s not really the typical time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?

By SETH BORENSTEIN
Jan 09, 2025 7:36 am - Southern California is experiencing its most devastating winter fires in more than four decades. Fires don’t usually blaze at this time of year, but specific ingredients have come together to defy the calendar in a fast and deadly manner.
Wildfires burn out of control across Los Angeles area and kill 5 as thousands flee homes

By JAIMIE DING, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JULIE WATSON
Jan 08, 2025 10:59 pm - California firefighters battled wind-whipped wildfires that tore across the Los Angeles area, destroying homes, clogging roadways as tens of thousands fled and straining resources as the fires burned uncontained early Wednesday.
Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites ‘recent elections’ as a catalyst

By BARBARA ORTUTAY
Jan 08, 2025 7:15 pm - It wasn't just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration. The social media giant has also loosened its rules ...
IRS must ramp up resources for identity-theft victims, says watchdog

By Hannah Ziegler
Jan 08, 2025 3:37 pm - The Internal Revenue Service must increase resources for victim assistance cases involving identity theft, which are taking an average of almost two years to resolve, an ...
Body of an Israeli hostage is found in Gaza, possibly alongside his son’s remains, army says

By TIA GOLDENBERG and MELANIE LIDMAN
Jan 08, 2025 3:33 pm - JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers recovered the body of a 53-year-old hostage in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza, the military said Wednesday, and the army was determin...
Biden casts doubt on his fitness to serve another four years days before term ends

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Jan 08, 2025 2:56 pm - President Joe Biden, in a new interview days before he leaves office, cast doubt on his fitness to serve another four years even as he maintained that he could have won election to a second term.

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