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“One sees relatively low premiums in high-risk markets in California, but that might be starting to change,” said Philip Mulder, a University of Wisconsin professor who studies the industry. Read more
Jasper Cooper, senior credit officer for Moody’s Ratings, expected insured losses to amount to billions of dollars given the area’s high values of homes and businesses. Read more
The Oscar winner, in a post on Instagram, said she and her husband, actor and director Christopher Guest, along with their children were starting a fund to support “our great city and state and the great people who live there.” Read more
The list of celebrities who lost their homes and neighborhoods in the worst fire in Los Angeles history reads like a Hollywood who’s who. Read more
Hundreds of mourners including all five living current and former U.S. presidents packed the Washington National Cathedral. Read more
The Palisades Fire between Santa Monica and Malibu on the city’s western flank and the Eaton Fire in the east near Pasadena already rank as the most destructive in Los Angeles history. Read more
Erupting well outside of the traditional wildfire season, the California blazes were spreading quickly today. For California, scientists now consider fire to be a yearlong risk. Read more
Private forecaster AccuWeather estimated initial damage and economic loss at more than $50 billion. Read more
Santa Ana winds are fueling the fire which is expected to get worse overnight. Read more
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The state funeral for the 39th U.S. president comes at a time of transition as Republican President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take power from Democratic President Joe Biden. Read more
The bodies were discovered during a routine post-flight maintenance assessment of the plane, the airline said. Read more
U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan said Giuliani had not complied with requests from the election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss, for information that could help them determine which of his assets may be turned over to pay off the defamation judgment. Read more
The storm was moving toward the mid-Atlantic, where Washington, D.C. was bracing for heavy snow and bitter cold on Monday, the same day the U.S. Congress is set to meet and formally certify Republican Donald Trump’s election as president. Read more
Officials on Thursday identified the person found dead inside the Cybertruck as Matthew Livelsberger, 37, an active-duty Army soldier from Colorado Springs. Read more
Thune, R-S.D., has ascended to the Senate majority leader in the new Congress. Again he is facing an early challenge and a major threat to his political standing. Read more
The bulletin was issued a day after the FBI said Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native, was “100 percent inspired” by the Islamic State militant group to drive a truck into New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others. Read more
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said alcohol consumption increases the risk of at least seven types of cancer, including breast, colon and liver cancer, but most U.S. consumers remain unaware of this. Read more
Police in Washington, the site of the Jan. 9 state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter and President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, said in a statement they had raised security across the city “in light of recent events,” and that the community will notice an increased police presence. Read more
Johnson received the endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump for another term Monday, and no other Republican has thrown a hat into the ring to challenge him. Read more
The FBI said there appeared to be no link between the attack in New Orleans and the episode in Las Vegas on the same day in which a Tesla Cybertruck exploded in flames outside the Trump International Hotel. Read more
Law enforcement officials identified the man inside the Tesla Cybertruck as Matthew Livelsberger, an active-duty U.S. Army soldier. Read more
