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LA fires latest: wildfires become most destructive in city’s history
The LA fires still rage – catastrophic reality has rivalled fiction in the home of American disaster movies. As the fires spread the insurance losses mount. Estimates are that they’ve reached $13bn in just 24 hours.
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Trump dismisses hush-money case sentencing as ‘political attack’
Donald Trump has hit out angrily after a judge ordered that he be sentenced on January 10th in his New York hush-money case.
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New Orleans: King sends condolences to family of Edward Pettifor
King Charles has sent his condolences to the family of Edward Pettifor, whose stepmother, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, was William and Harry’s former nanny.
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Recent geopolitical events will ‘open up more space for IS to resurge’ says counter terrorism expert
We spoke earlier to Colin Clarke, a counter-terrorism expert and director of research at security consulting firm The Soufan Group.
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New Orleans attacker was acting alone, says FBI
A former college football player, an 18 year old about to start her nursing training, a young mother, a high school graduate, many of the 14 New Orleans victims were celebrating the new year and a new chapter of their lives.
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Jimmy Carter went ‘from barefoot boy to global icon’, says biographer
The journalist and author Jonathan Alter has written a biography of Jimmy Carter.
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Tributes paid to former US president Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter’s single term in office was followed by the longest post-presidency in history.
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Where next for America in the political era of Donald Trump?
Kiran Moodley reflects on the revelation of the year – that Trump is the new norm when it comes to US politics.
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‘Americans are fed up with wasteful Washington spending’, says Frank Luntz
Political consultant Frank Luntz speaks to us from Los Angeles.
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US Government shutdown looms as Congress race to find a deal
Inside Capitol Hill, politicians are trying to find a way to keep federal funding going into next year – although Donald Trump has already said it’s President Biden’s problem to solve.
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Farage and Musk hold talks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Nigel Farage has been beside the seaside. Not in his Clacton constituency, but on the sun-kissed Florida coast.
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White House defends Joe Biden’s Hunter pardon
President Biden repeatedly said he wouldn’t interfere in his son’s legal proceedings.
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Trump draws-up conservative blueprint for presidency
Donald Trump has named his Treasury Secretary as part of a flurry of nominations to his top team.
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Gaetz withdraws as Trump nominee for attorney general
One of Donald Trump’s contentious picks for cabinet, Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration as Attorney General.
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Trump picks WWE co-founder for education secretary
Now to his critics, Donald Trump’s choices for his new Cabinet are at best inexperienced, at worst dangerously disruptive.