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A little after midnight on New Year’s Day, Francine Sohn was jolted awake by a phone call from a neighbor, who sounded hysterical. “There’s a fire on the hill,” the neighbor told her. Sohn, 72, looked outside and saw a small brush fire perilously close to her Pacific Palisades neighborhood in western Los Angeles. She watched firefighters douse the flames, …

Southern California residents facing losses from this week’s Los Angeles-area fires are beginning to confront their next challenge: filing an insurance claim. Though mainstream insurers garnered headlines last year for declining to write any new policies in the state amid growing fire threats, they still retain tens of thousands of pre-existing customers who may have been affected. And while public …

BEIJING — As he prepares to leave Beijing, the U.S. envoy to China feels relations between the two rival powers are the most stable they’ve been in recent years. But there’s no guarantee they will stay that way. It “remains a very challenging, often very contentious and in a long-term way deeply competitive relationship,” Ambassador Nicholas Burns told NBC News …

Denmark takes a stand against Trump’s Greenland ambitions, Meta makes a big policy change, and Eli Manning reveals the one team he’d want to buy. Source link

In the weeks and months after Donald Trump won his shock election victory in 2016, business and tech leaders began a steady march leftward, adopting policies and postures to counter his influence on America.  Media outlets reckoned with what some saw as their leading role in helping Trump get elected and pledged to be ruthless and unintimidated in their coverage …

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at South Korea’s Muan airport, the transport ministry said on Saturday. Authorities investigating the disaster that killed 179 people, the worst on South Korean soil, plan to analyze what caused the “black boxes” to stop recording, the …

MIAMI — 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. Biden’s administration has strongly supported Temporary Protected Status, which he has broadly expanded to cover about 1 million …

WASHINGTON — An FBI background check for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, was transmitted late Friday to the leading members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the report, just days ahead of his Tuesday confirmation hearing. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the panel’s chairman, and Sen. …

President Joe Biden on Friday slammed Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program, calling it “really shameful.” While answering questions from reporters following remarks about the economy, Biden said the move would allow “things that are simply not true” to be read by millions of people. “It’s just completely contrary to everything America is about. We want to tell the …

Hundreds of animals are being cared for by humane groups in Southern California as this week’s fast-moving wildfires continue to displace residents.  “This is clearly not something that will be resolved in a day, a week,” said Ana Bustilloz, director of communications and marketing at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles, or spcaLA, a local …