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President-elect Donald Trump’s team is engaged in conversations about his visiting Los Angeles to view the wildfire damage, two sources familiar with the discussions said.

The judge who handled Trump’s classified documents case allows the first part of Jack Smith’s report to be public Jack Smith’s report into Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election could become public as soon as Tuesday after a federal judge denied a last-ditch attempt by the president-elect to … Read more

Billionaire reposted false claim as Republicans seek to condition disaster aid to Democratic-controlled California California wildfires: live updates Gavin Newsom has accused the tech billionaire Elon Musk of “encouraging looting” in an escalation of a row over disinformation surrounding the deadly Los Angeles fires. The California governor lashed out after Musk, who is President-elect Donald … Read more

A liberal activist group in Colorado is warning sheriffs in the state that they will hold them personally liable and sue if they cooperate with President-elect Trump’s mass deportations plans or with ICE officials in any way, including working to deport illegal immigrants. In a letter to Colorado sheriffs signed by ACLU of Colorado executive … Read more

Drone footage shows the scale of devastation in southern California when compared with Google Earth images from before the wildfires. Footage from Altadena, Malibu and Pacific Palisades shows buildings razed to the ground along whole streets in Los Angeles county LA fires live: Firefighters braced for ‘explosive fire growth’ amid red flag weather warning and … Read more

The Minnesota Republican Party vowed to pursue constitutional recalls against any Democratic legislator who refuses to show up at the state legislature’s first day of session on Monday. Democrats have threatened to boycott the first two weeks of the session in an effort to block Republicans from taking advantage of a narrow and temporary majority … Read more

A wife working to bring her husband home from years of wrongful detainment in Afghanistan saw heartening progress over the weekend.  After traveling to Mar-a-Lago with no promise that anyone with President-elect Donald Trump’s team would see her, Anna Corbett had a meeting with incoming National Security Advisor Michael Waltz for more than an hour … Read more

Victims of ‘grooming gangs’ have been badly let down, but children must be protected on social media as well as in the real world Two seemingly contradictory things are true. It was appalling for the UK’s domestic policy agenda to be hijacked last week by Elon Musk’s blaze of interest in child sexual exploitation gangs. … Read more

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that flags at the state Capitol building in Austin and at all state office buildings will be raised to full-staff next Monday, Jan. 20, to mark President-elect Trump’s inauguration. The move comes despite the official order by President Biden after the Dec. 29 death of former President Jimmy … Read more

In response to concerns that environmental protection efforts might delay reconstruction in the coastal area, environmental laws that could have posed obstacles to rebuilding structures destroyed by the Southern California wildfires will be temporarily suspended. Houses along the scenic Pacific Coast Highway in California burned down in a monstrous fire that destroyed more than 10,000 … Read more