22 states, including Hawaii, sue to stop Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said, “the words of the U.S. Constitution are inviolable.” Read more
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Rare winter storm blankets South, freezes much of U.S.
The storm is expected to crawl through Mississippi, Georgia and Florida early this week. Read more
Trump removes Coast Guard commandant
The White House and Department of Homeland Security did not immediately reply to requests for comment on the report. Read more
Trump outlines sweeping border crackdown, mass deportations
Trump says he would invoke a 1798 wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act to target foreign gang members in the U.S., a legal authority last used to detain U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent in internment camps during World War II. Read more
Displaced by fires, Angelenos anxiously search for place to live
Angelenos described the anguish of exile from beloved neighborhoods and the daunting task of figuring out what comes next for themselves and their families. Read more
Polar vortex to bring freezing temperatures across U.S.
Temperatures will reach below 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, into the teens in the central Plains and Midwest and near 30 degrees in parts of the South on Saturday, before the front moves into the East Coast and the Southeast on Monday, the National Weather Service said. Read more
Trump moves inauguration indoors due to freezing temperatures
The weather forecast for Washington on Monday predicts temperatures at the time of Trump’s swearing-in to be around 19 F, but will feel even colder with wind chill. Read more
L.A. evacuees told stay away from home at least another week
Landslides further endangered the devastated hillsides, where leveled structures no longer hold earth in place and water from fire hoses and broken pipes has saturated the ground, adding more stress and heartache to people suffering the worst natural disaster in Los Angeles history. Read more
Giuliani keeps homes, agrees to halt Georgia defamation
In a statement read by his lawyer, Giuliani said the settlement lets him keep his Palm Beach, Florida, condominium as well as his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Read more
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L.A. firefighters brace for threat of more powerful winds
Local officials urged residents to stay vigilant throughout the day today and be prepared to evacuate at a moment’s notice, even after tamer-than-expected winds over the last 24 hours. Read more
Los Angeles firefighters holding the line despite extreme winds
Some 8,500 firefighters from at least seven states and two foreign countries prevented the fires from growing for a second straight day as they gained slightly more control of the perimeter of the blazes. Read more
Republicans eye conditions on California wildfire aid
“It appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in many respects. So that’s something that has to be factored in,” Johnson told reporters in the U.S. Capitol. Read more
Special Counsel: Trump would have been convicted in election case
The report, obtained by The New York Times, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of a president-elect. Read more
Mexican firefighters prepare to do battle with L.A. fires
The group is made up of military specialists, including doctors, engineers and search and rescue personnel, as well as a group of firefighters from Mexico’s equivalent of the U.S. Forest Service. Read more
Supreme Court rejects bid by oil companies to toss Honolulu’s climate suit
The justices turned away an appeal by the oil companies of a decision by Hawaii’s top court allowing the suit, which alleged violations of state law, to proceed. Read more
Santa Ana winds pick up, threatening fire-ravaged Los Angeles anew
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said the firestorm could rank as the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history. It is already the costliest wildfire in terms of insured losses. Read more
How one California man tried saving his block from wildfire
His one-story yellow duplex survived. So did two more homes next door. Across the street, entire houses burned to the ground. A single brick chimney stood alone in the wreckage. Read more
Neighborhoods under threat as Los Angeles Palisades fire rages on
Aircraft dropped water and fire retardant on steep hills to stem the eastward spread of the Palisades Fire and KTLA television reported that ground crews had managed to save a number of houses, although others were lost. Read more
Aerial assault aims to stem L.A. Palisades fire eastward spread
Over the past 24 hours, the Palisades Fire spread over an additional 1,000 acres (400 hectares), consuming more homes, officials reported. Read more
Biden awards Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom
In his citation for Francis, Biden lauded the religious leader’s life of service to “the voiceless and vulnerable across Argentina” and his lifetime of service to the poor. Read more
‘We’re in a new era’: How climate change is supercharging disasters
With temperatures rising around the world and the oceans unusually warm, scientists are warning that the planet has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change. Read more
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