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LA issues new evacuation order as thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’
California wildfires  
LA issues new evacuation order as thickening smoke prompts ‘health emergency’
Palisades and Eaton fires start coming under control as fierce winds ease but forecasters predict another red flag warning for Monday
Music  
Soul Man singer Sam Moore dies aged 89 from surgery complications
Donald Trump trials  
Trump avoids punishment for hush-money conviction and calls case ‘terrible experience’
New Orleans truck attack  
Attack would’ve had ‘completely different outcome’ if steel barriers were used, inventor says
South Korea  
Black boxes on crashed South Korean plane cut out before impact, inquiry finds
Los Angeles fires
Community groups provide relief as LA staggers from wildfire emergency
California wildfires  
Community groups provide relief as LA staggers from wildfire emergency
Volunteer organizations fill in to provide rides and supplies to a city devastated by fire, and offer ways to contribute
California  
LA fires burn area twice the size of Manhattan – worst the city has seen in recent history
Visualized  
Los Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and images
LA fires  
‘It feels apocalyptic’: Californians on loss and devastation
Victims  
‘I had to save myself’: details emerge about Los Angeles wildfire fatalities
In focus
‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises
Donald Trump  
‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises
Many in Youngstown, Ohio, believe the president-elect will tackle the town’s decline this time. Others are worried about his character flaws. Their concerns help explain how he returned to power – and how his second term might play out
US economy  
Americans stocking up on foreign goods before Trump tariffs: ‘a sense of urgency’
Business  
How could Trump’s second term affect DEI initiatives in the US?
EU  
Twin-headed Trump-Musk onslaught leaves Europe floundering for response
Analysis  
Mark Zuckerberg’s end to Meta factchecking is a desperate play for engagement
Spotlight
‘I think there is life there': the race to put a human on Mars
Mars  
‘I think there is life there': the race to put a human on Mars
Ever since the first fuzzy images of its surface were captured in 1964, Mars has sparked imaginations worldwide. As Nasa publishes its photographic archives of the red planet, will Elon Musk’s wild predictions of a crewed flight in four years come true?
France  
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’
Nutrition  
From iced buns to brussels sprouts: nine nutritionists on what they really eat (it may surprise you)
Saturday Night Live  
‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night
Sex  
This is how we do it: ‘At 96, I’m enjoying real intimacy for the first time in my life. I feel like a teenager’
Brian Eno  
‘I don’t like being revered’: Brian Eno on art, AI, and why he hates talking about David Bowie
Opinion
Trump’s punishment for his crimes? None
Moira Donegan
Trump’s punishment for his crimes? None
Los Angeles is on fire and big oil are the arsonists
Tzeporah Berman
Sports
College football  
Sawyer’s late scoop-and-score lifts Ohio State past Texas into CFP title game
Sawyer’s late scoop-and-score lifts Ohio State past Texas into CFP title game
UFC  
Why Mark Zuckerberg turned to Dana White to secure Maga’s favor
Karim Zidan
Culture
Books  
‘I didn’t want to fit in a box of what an Aboriginal person should write’: how Alexis Wright found her voice
‘I didn’t want to fit in a box of what an Aboriginal person should write’: how Alexis Wright found her voice
The watcher  
Severance: it’s a gorgeously odd return for this surreal drama – if you can work out what’s happening
In case you missed it
Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows
US immigration  
Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows
Program for skilled foreign workers pits Trump and Musk against Bannon – and progressive Bernie Sanders
Abortion  
New Mexico supreme court strikes down local abortion pill restrictions
Books  
Key Republican claims Bob Woodward told him Biden was financially corrupt
US  
Vince McMahon reaches deal with SEC over sexual misconduct claim settlements
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