- L.A. Was Prepared for Serious Fires. But It Wasn’t Ready for Four. (nytimes.com)LA issues new evacuation order as thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’ (theguardian.com)Palisades Fire moves toward Brentwood in ‘significant’ shift (washingtonpost.com)‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters (nytimes.com)
- 📺 ‘I’m Not Saying President Trump is Bought and Paid For, BUT…’: MAGA Star Laura Loomer Suggests Trump World ‘Scared’ to Cross ‘Monarch’ Elon Musk (mediaite.com)
- Trump Has Pressed For Voting Changes. GOP Majorities In Congress Will Try To Make That Happen – But Are Likely To Encounter Problems (huffpost.com)
- A Judge Says Missouri’s Abortion Ban Isn’t Enforceable, But There’s No Start Date For Abortions (huffpost.com)
- New Details Emerge in Cybertruck Explosion, but Motive Is Still Unclear (nytimes.com)Man Who Died In Tesla Cybertruck Explosion Was Highly Decorated U.S. Army Green Beret (huffpost.com)
- Putin says he saved Russia, but a year of challenges suggests Moscow’s position is precarious (washingtonpost.com)
- Trump Will Confront a More Vulnerable but Determined Iran (nytimes.com)
- They wrote obituaries about Jimmy Carter — but died before him (washingtonpost.com)
- The Number of Murders Kept Falling This Year, but Fear of Crime Persists (nytimes.com)
- Biden all but shuts down death row, commutes all but 3 sentences from death to life in prison before Trump takes office (cnn.com)
