Day: January 13, 2025

The hearings are sure to escalate clashes over Trump’s most controversial nominees.

Dangerously high winds were expected to resume on Monday in Los Angeles, potentially hampering efforts to extinguish two stubborn wildfires that have leveled whole neighborhoods and claimed the lives of at least two dozen people. Dry Santa Ana winds of up to 50 to 70 miles per hour (80 to 112 kph) were forecast to resume on Monday and persist through Wednesday, the National Weather Service said in issuing a “particularly dangerous situation” red flag warning. In anticipation, California Governor Gavin Newsom said over the weekend that the state was pre-positioning firefighting in vulnerable areas including those around the Palisades and Eaton fires, the two largest blazes that have ignited in Southern California.

Questions raised of whether Palisades fire is connected to earlier fire put out new year’s day, with possible human origins

Negotiations to secure an end to the war in Gaza and the release of the nearly 100 hostages still in the strip, have been drawn-out and labored.

After nearly 3 years of slowing sales and amid an already challenging environment for department stores, Kohl’s (NYSE:KSS) will close its San Bernardino fulfillment center, and 27 underperforming stores, a measure the company hinted at last quarter. “We are not satisfied with our performance in 2024 and are taking aggressive action to reverse the s…

Efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and release hostages is close but not yet finalized, an Israeli official told The Hill Wednesday, after Reuters reported Qatar has handed a fi…