By Matt McKnight and Fred Greaves LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Survivors of the wildfires that have been sweeping parts of Los Angeles have started to trickle back to their evacuated homes in recent days, hoping against the odds that they were spared the worst of the devastation. Many instead found little more than concrete foundations, …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Friday declared a public health emergency for California to address the health impacts of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles County. The wildfires have devastated Los Angeles neighborhoods on the east and west sides of the sprawling metropolis and have so far killed 10 …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – On Friday, a New York judge imposed a sentence that ensures Donald Trump will be the first convicted felon to enter the White House when he is sworn in as president on Jan. 20. It was a brief and relatively calm final encounter of Trump’s relationship with Justice …
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By Jonathan Landay and Erin Banco WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Most U.S. spy agencies have reaffirmed it is “very unlikely” that a foreign foe was responsible for so-called Havana Syndrome ailments suffered by hundreds of U.S. personnel and family members, a U.S. intelligence report said on Friday. One agency, however, now believes there is a “roughly even …
(Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s company is in negotiations to repurchase the lease on a hotel in Washington D.C. it used to own, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Trump Organization had sold the lease on the hotel, which is blocks away from the White House in …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday said former Democratic Florida prosecutor Andrew Warren cannot pursue a lawsuit claiming he was wrongfully suspended by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. In a brief order, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the case was moot because Warren lost his re-election bid in …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or pay a fine over his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, but the sentence imposed by a judge on Friday places a judgment of guilt on his record. The sentencing in Trump’s New York criminal case …
By Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Raging wildfires that continue to burn a path of destruction through Southern California claimed the Will Rogers ranch along with a number of other local landmarks in what is already the most damaging fire in Los Angeles history. Some monuments remain unscathed, such as the famous Hollywood sign …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has take steps in response to Chinese-linked cyber-espionage operations against U.S. telecoms firms, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday. U.S. telecoms firms AT&T and Verizon said late last year their networks had been targeted by the cyber hackers, but were now secure as they worked with …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s aides with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have spoken with staffers at more than a dozen federal agencies to begin preliminary interviews, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The agencies include the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services, the …
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