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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.
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.
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.
Judge scraps Biden’s Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ+ students

By COLLIN BINKLEY
Jan 09, 2025 2:09 pm - The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found they overstepped the president’s authority.
US orange juice and steel will be on Canada’s list for retaliation if Trump imposes tariffs

By ROB GILLIES
Jan 09, 2025 2:02 pm - Canada is looking at putting retaliatory tariffs on American orange juice, toilets and some steel products if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his threat to impose 25% tariffs on all Canadian products, a senior official familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Trump, the ‘America First’ candidate, has a new preoccupation: Imperialism

By JILL COLVIN and ROB GILLIES
Jan 09, 2025 1:58 pm - Donald Trump ran on a return to his "America First” foreign policy platform. The U.S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world's policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars.
Trump asks appeals court to block entire special counsel report

Perry Stein, Jeremy Roebuck
Jan 09, 2025 1:23 pm - Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court late Wednesday to block the release of both volumes of a special counsel report on his two dismissed federal cases - the latest attempt by the president-elect to fight the final remnants of his criminal cases.

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