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Growing wildfires put millions at risk in California

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Sat Jan 18 2025

 
Firefighters battle a fire in a home along the Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on Jan. 8, 2025. The fire, one of several in Los Angeles County, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other structures.

California wildfires like the Palisades and Eaton fires are growing larger and more destructive. Here's why.

TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration pictured on Aug. 22, 2022.
 

Trump: TikTok 'likely' to get 90-day 'reprieve' from ban, NBC News says

Once he takes office on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump plans to give TikTok a 90-day 'reprieve' from a ban, he told NBC News on Saturday.

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to serve as assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, standing in the offices of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division with a portrait of Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991, on Jan. 16, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
 

Biden's top civil rights enforcer bids 'bittersweet' farewell to DOJ

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman chosen to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the DOJ 'a bittersweet moment.'

Two men pouring alcohol down a drain during prohibition in America circa 1920.
 

Sober January forever? What happened when the US banned alcohol

Jan. 17 marks the 105th anniversary of Prohibition. What happened and how long did it last?

Illustration by Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY
 

TikTok ban timeline: What's next?

Is TikTok banned? The Supreme Court has upheld the ban meaning the app may go down starting Sunday for millions of Americans.

Chillicothe Primary School kindergarten teacher Alan Christy demonstrates how to cover one's face when coughing or sneezing to help cease the spread of harmful germs that can be passed from one person to another as his students learn more about germs before students leave school for a three-week extended spring break due to the national outbreak of the Coronavirus.
 

Flu season is here. Here's what you need to know

Over 160,000 people this season have landed in the hospital from flu complications, CDC estimates. More than 6,600 have died. Here's the symptoms.

Archeologist Deni Seymour and Daniel Preston, a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation.
 

'You've got to see this': Archaeologists find oldest gun in the US

Deni Seymour spent decades researching first contact between Native Americans and European settlers. Then she found a 500-year-old cannon.

A person rides a scooter in front of posters of hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7 2023, attack by Hamas, in Jerusalem on Jan. 16, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
 

Israel's hostages may finally come home. Families can't wait

Hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are expected to be freed in a ceasefire deal with Israel. Palestinian prisoners held in Israel will also be freed.

TikTok logo is seen in this illustration taken January 8, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
 

When is TikTok getting banned? Catching you up on the latest info

Citing national security, the Supreme Court rules that TikTok can be banned if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell the app by Sunday.

Gloire Sadiki holds his 3-year-old child after they were reunited at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in in Louisville, KY, Jan. 14, 2025. The Congolese refugees were reunited through the U.S. refugee program.
 

Will Trump once again curtail U.S. refugee resettlement?

Refugee communities and agencies are bracing to see whether Trump again curtails the U.S. resettlement program.

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