Day: January 15, 2025

Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire and hostage release deal. Plus, the latest on the contentious Trump administration confirmation hearings.

Officials expect high winds to kick up again early on Wednesday – as a 25th death is confirmed in the US disaster.

USA TODAY analyzed decades of fire data to understand how things are changing in California.

So-called TikTok refugees are making jokes about being “reunited” with their Chinese spies.

The deliberate choice to seek refuge on another app of Chinese origin says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.

Will there be ways to bypass the ban – or could president-elect Donald Trump find a way to stop the law?

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.

by Joel Jacobs and Megan O’Matz ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A decade ago, strange billboards started showing up, including in New York’s Times Square. They weren’t advertising a product. They were vilifying Connecticut’s then-governor, Dannel Malloy. And they could be…

South Korean investigators managed to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday while avoiding a violent clash in the middle of Seoul. But the nation’s troubles are far from over.