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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.
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 ...

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