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Over 1,000 people were advised to evacuate a community in Northern California after a large fire erupted Thursday afternoon at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants. Video circulating on social media shows smoke and flames erupting from the Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday night in the community of Moss Landing, located in Monterey County, about 25 miles …

Senate Democrats are pushing for more transparency from presidential inaugural committees, as a wave of cash from corporations and their billionaire leaders floods Washington, D.C., before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. “The American people deserve to know how these funds are being spent and exactly who they come from,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., in a statement to CNBC after reintroducing legislation to strengthen oversight of the committees. “The …

Asset management giant Vanguard has been fined more than $100 million to settle charges related to disclosures around target date investment funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday. The violations stem from a 2020 change where Vanguard lowered the minimum investment requirement for its institutional target date funds. The SEC order found that the change spurred redemptions as Vanguard customers moved …

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony is moving indoors to the Capitol rotunda because of a frigid weather forecast in the nation’s capital Monday, the president-elect announced on social media Friday. Inauguration Day is often cold, but Monday looks to be especially brisk. The high is expected to be roughly 20 degrees, with a low of six degrees, and …

President Joe Biden’s administration said it will be up to President-elect Donald Trump to implement the ban on TikTok, which is set to take effect in two days after the Supreme Court upheld the law Friday. “Given the sheer fact of timing, this Administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next Administration, which takes …

Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first openly transgender member of Congress, said she remains focused on her job and refuses to give Republicans what they want, which she said is for her to take the “bait” over a policy that bars her from women’s restrooms in the House. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., informally enacted the policy in November and renewed …

Erling Haaland has signed a new contract at Manchester City through 2034, committing his long-term future to the Premier League champions with one of the most lucrative deals in soccer amid uncertain times for the club on and off the field. City announced the deal — covering 10 years from the start of this season — on Friday for the …

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, her mother ran an amateur drama group and Plowright was involved in the theater from age 3. She was soon spending school vacations at summer sessions of university drama schools. After high school, she studied at the Laban Art of Movement Studio in Manchester, then won a two-year scholarship to the drama …

NAIROBI/WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Sudan’s leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of choosing war over negotiations to bring an end to the conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement that under Burhan’s leadership, the army’s war tactics have included …

President Joe Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of more than 2,000 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, cementing his legacy as the president who has issued the most individual pardons and commutations in U.S. history. Biden said in a statement that commuting the nearly 2,500 sentences would help “equalize” sentencing disparities. “Today’s clemency action provides relief for …