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Judge Aileen Cannon has allowed the DOJ to release Volume One of Jack Smith's report on Trump's alleged election interference but delayed a decision on releasing Volume Two, related to classified documents, to Congress.

The incoming vice-president’s remarks on Fox News Sunday with host Shannon Bream slightly deviated from a prior promise by Trump to consider pardoning even those who acknowledged assaulting police officers, saying “a very corrupt system” left them with “no choice”.

A panel of UN experts and a group of 100 legal and human rights scholars have written to the president appealing to him to pardon the 53-year-old prisoner, the first 9/11 detainee to be tortured at the CIA global network of secret prisons.

California Governor Gavin Newsom accused Elon Musk of spreading disinformation and "encouraging looting" during the Los Angeles fires after Musk reposted false claims that Democrats decriminalized looting.

Experts warn of rising online racism fueled by X’s generative AI chatbot, Grok, which recently introduced a photorealistic image feature called Aurora.

A firefighting super scooper battling the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles collided with a privately-owned DJI drone, causing significant damage and delaying operations.

Shein’s rise as the world’s largest fast-fashion retailer is powered by 5,000 factories in Guangzhou's "Shein village," where workers often exceed 75-hour weeks, violating Chinese labor laws.

Fierce gusts known as Santa Ana winds have been largely blamed for turning the wildfires into devastating infernos that leveled huge tranches of neighborhoods around America’s second-largest city, which has also been hit by drought.

California officials are investigating whether the deadly Palisades fire, which has killed 24 and destroyed thousands of homes, is linked to a smaller New Year's Day fire.

Once a powerful Russian oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky has been tangled in legal disputes, mounting debts, and a bitter divorce. He's also drawn FBI scrutiny for ties to a former FBI agent and an ex-Russian diplomat, both of whom have been charged with criminal felonies related to another oligarch.

Officials are warning the public about scams targeting donors during the Los Angeles wildfires.

For Isabel Corro, Donald Trump’s suggestions that the US could use military force to take control of the Panama Canal evokes painful memories.

A newly revealed memorandum from March 2022 shows the US Supreme Court increased security measures and reduced public access to court records ahead of overturning Roe v. Wade.

For the past two years, Donald Trump has spread fear about the state of the United States and championed himself as the only man capable of saving the country from itself. Only he could bring down the price of groceries and gas. Only he could fix the broken health care system. Only he could fix the broken immigration system. Only he could end the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East.

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THE FIRST TRUMP administration launched a sprawling campaign to ferret out leakers, which targeted reporters at CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, plus members of Congress and their staff. But a watchdog report released to The Intercept shows that just days before the 2020 presidential election, senior Justice Department officials signed off on leaks to two favored newspapers with conservative reputations, both owned by the biggest name in right-wing media.

A historic winter storm swept through southern U.S. cities, bringing record-breaking snowfall and widespread disruptions.

A UK judge has dismissed James Howells' legal attempt to excavate a Newport landfill to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins, now valued at $765 million.

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By Stephanie Saul Jan. 10, 2025

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Los Angeles wildfires that have destroyed 12,000 structures and killed 16 people.

The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.

Several U.S. states have enacted laws requiring pornography sites, such as PornHub, to implement age verification to prevent minors' access, prompting the site’s parent company, Aylo, to block access in affected states.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the article:

The Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward forcefully denied making statements attributed to him by James Comer, the Republican chair of the powerful House oversight committee, in which Woodward supposedly said Joe Biden was financially corrupt.

Former McKinsey partner Martin Elling pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by destroying documents tied to McKinsey's advice for Purdue Pharma on boosting OxyContin sales.

Wow.

Donald Trump was sentenced in New York on Friday, capping a long and, at times, embarrassing ordeal that saw him become the first ex-president to be criminally convicted.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in TikTok's case to block a law that bans the app in the United States. The justices didn't seem convinced.

Wildfires in Los Angeles have burned twice the size of Manhattan, marking the worst wildfire event in the city's history.

President Biden announced the federal government will cover 100% of costs for initial disaster response to the Los Angeles wildfires for 180 days.

Dude is trying so hard to fit in with the MAGATs.

I read this story and thought it was interesting. Essentially it's saying that Zuck's recent changes to Meta moderation are almost certainly a response to Republican pressure, despite what Zuck claims.

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Critics say Los Angeles didn't have enough water to fight devastating wildfires, but the truth is more complicated.

DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

An NBC News investigation found less than 4% of reported sex crimes in several U.S. cities lead to convictions.

Tipping in U.S. restaurants has dropped to 19.3%, the lowest in six years, driven by frustration over rising menu prices and increased prompts for tips in non-traditional settings.

OH YEAH THEYRE TALKING ABOUT IT NOW

Meta announced the termination of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, including hiring practices and supplier diversity initiatives.

The Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a U.S. law requiring TikTok's China-based owner, ByteDance, to divest ownership, potentially banning the app.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed offering free breakfast and lunch to all 2.7 million New York students regardless of income.

Additional context for non-scientists:

The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a petition Oct. 29 claiming Granados had prescribed puberty blockers and hormones to minors for gender transition — health care the state made illegal beginning Sept. 1, 2023. The court filing accuses Granados of providing gender-affirming care under the false pretense of treating precocious puberty.

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) — A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation’s capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop. 

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Imagine this scenario: Department of Homeland Security agents storm a meatpacking plant in the South, a show of force in the largest workplace raid in a decade. Rounding up workers, they target those who appear to be Latinos, without regard for citizenship. They don’t ask for documentation until hours later.

OverNew data suggests a troubling new phase in the Kremlin’s tactics that directly threatens the lives of Europeans.

A drone collision grounded one of two Super Scooper planes battling Los Angeles wildfires, leaving a critical resource unavailable.

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A U.S. appeals court ruled that the Justice Department can release Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

But firefighters said the real reasons were a lack of personnel to combat out-of-control blazes in Southern California.

President-elect Trump has inspired Republican members of Congress to introduce a bill that would allow the federal government to take steps to repurchase the Panama Canal.

According to findings announced by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and published in The Lancet journal, there were an estimated 64,260 “traumatic injury deaths” in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza put the figure at 37,877 at the time.

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.

This is the second time a Texas Medical Center teaching hospital has been called out over surgery supervision in 7 months.

At least six Senate Democrats plan to back a bill that could let right-wing judges decide key immigration policy matters.

Shiu Ka-chun, a former social worker and pro-democracy lawmaker in Hong Kong who devoted his last years to helping protesters imprisoned after a crackdown on dissent, died Friday in Hong Kong. He was 55.His wife, Kelly Hui, said his death, in a hospital, was due to stomach cancer.

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