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Events in California reveal how political obstruction is deepening a climate crisis that needs urgent action to prevent it becoming an irreversible disaster The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, displaced 180,000 and scorched about 40 square miles – an inferno driven by fierce winds and severe drought in what should … Read more

The Supreme Court heard arguments over a law that could effectively ban the social media platform TikTok in the United States. NBC News’ Savannah Sellers reports on what both sides argued and how the court appeared unlikely to block the law from taking effect.

The audio tape of President-elect Donald Trump’s New York City sentencing hearing was released to the public on Friday giving insight into the unprecedented conviction against a former president where Trump was ultimately sentenced to an unconditional discharge. “This has been a very terrible experience,” Trump, who virtually attended the criminal trial sentencing hearing, told the New … Read more

President Biden and Vice President Harris received a briefing on the ongoing efforts to combat the devastating wildfires in California. President Biden pledged additional federal support but cautioned there’s still work to be done before the threat has passed.

The US president-elect, who was found guilty of committing 34 felonies, speaks after being sentenced to unconditional discharge in New York Continue reading…

Donald Trump will avoid jail time for his felony conviction in the New York hush-money case, a judge determined on Friday, marking both a dramatic and anti-climactic development in the historic criminal proceedings just 10 days before Trump returns to the White House. The judge who presided over Trump’s criminal trial, Juan Merchan, issued a … Read more

A reporter went head-to-head with the Democratic speaker of the California Assembly about whether lawmakers should be focused on earmarking legal funds to “Trump-proof” the Golden State while wildfires in the Los Angeles region are still ablaze. “Is now the right time to have a special legislative session on allocating money to fight Trump in … Read more

In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump announcing he hopes to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” a Texas congressman offered a Lone Star-sized suggestion for compromise. “Interesting compromise,” Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw posted as a caption to a map showing the Gulf of Mexico’s label replaced with … Read more

Executives acknowledge ‘not everyone will agree with this decision’ as bank calls time on remote and hybrid working JPMorgan Chase is summoning all staff back to the office, becoming the latest corporate giant to call time on era of remote and hybrid working sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The US’s largest bank, which has some … Read more

Trump’s absence was felt in the New York courtroom, and on video it wasn’t the outlandish display many might have expected US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump’s felony sentencing Friday morning had many of the trappings of his prior appearances at Manhattan supreme court. Queues of bleary-eyed reporters. Clusters of amped-up court officers. … Read more