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Evacuation orders and an alarm sound were mistakenly sent to cellphones of residents all over Los Angeles County and beyond on Thursday afternoon. The text message warning was sent to millions of people around 4 p.m. local time, including in places far from where wildfires are burning out of control. “An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued in your area,” the text message read, in part. “My entire area just got an evacuation Amber alert, which turned out to be for West Hills, not Beverly Hills,” a user wrote on X. As if we’re not already anxiety-ridden enough.”“I got an evacuation warning phone alert in DTLA for a fire 20+ miles away,” another X user wrote.

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☆ Los Angeles struggles to contain disaster as 5th wildfire breaks out in the Hollywood Hills
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The longest-burning of the now five active fires in Los Angeles County, the Palisades Fire, has burned over 15,000 acres, official said. Chief of Los Angeles Fire Department Kristin Crowley said that fire was under control as of Wednesday evening. Tourist landmarks close as smoke chokes LAThe Los Angeles area is a huge tourist draw, attracting nearly 50 million visitors a year. The fires forced some Los Angeles-area landmarks to close, including the Hollywood sign, the Los Angeles Zoo, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal CityWalk, and the Griffith Observatory. ADEven miles from the fires in South Los Angeles, smoke reduced visibility to just one block, officials said.

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☆ Photos from the LA fires show how houses catch on fire — and how homeowners can protect their property
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Los Angeles firestorms show how quickly wildfires can turn into urban fires. Understanding how a brush fire becomes urban can help homeowners prepare their properties for future fires. Related VideoStrong winds blow embers as the Palisades Fire burns homes on January 8. David Swanson/AFP/Getty ImagesIf those little fires are close enough to the house, the flames can start to overtake the building. ADHowever, photos from the aftermath so far in the Palisades don't seem to show surviving houses unique amid burned blocks.

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“Within minutes, 10 to 20 minutes, there wasn’t one fire. There were multiple fires, as embers were sort of crisscrossing the area,” Hurwitz told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing on Wednesday. Hurwitz packed up a few more possessions, including clothes, a laptop, and the family’s pets: a rescue dog, Lily, and a hamster, Wolfy. Our lives, our pets’ lives, our kids’ lives are what were paramount. Mallory Sobel, who lives in the Pacific Palisades Highlands neighborhood, said she left with just a bag of emergency supplies and her family’s passports.

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☆ I retired at 41 to focus on myself. Then, my toddler was diagnosed with cancer, and now I manage his treatment.
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-07 | by ( Catherine Baab-Muguira | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Then, at age 3, my son was diagnosed with cancer. And then, my son was diagnosed with cancer, which changed all my plans. At age 3, right out of the blue, my little boy was diagnosed with a gravely serious form of cancer. ADNow, instead of pursuing my passions, I help manage his treatment — a grueling, yearlong regimen of chemotherapy that requires frequent hospitalizations. If the treatment weren't necessary to save his life, I'd bust us both out of the hospital, Bonnie and Clyde-style.

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☆ Israel name-checked a notorious WWII attack to justify sinking Syria's navy
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

During WWII, the Royal Navy attacked the fleet of its former ally to keep it from Nazi control. Though Netanyahu's history was faulty — it was the Royal Navy rather than the RAF that struck the French fleet — his analogy was revealing. The Kriegsmarine — the German Navy — was a fraction of the size of the Royal Navy, and thus too small to escort vulnerable troop transports. Vichy France would be allowed a meager army, and the French Navy would be confined to its home ports. This was no repeat of the Battle of Trafalgar, when the Royal Navy smashed a Franco-Spanish fleet off Spain in 1805.

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☆ Notre Dame’s resurrection: Its chief architect on rebuilding France’s 'heart' in 5 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

A view of debris inside Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Paris, France, April 16, 2019. General view inside Notre-Dame of Paris Cathedral before its reopening on December 06, 2024 in Paris, France. General view inside Notre-Dame of Paris Cathedral before its reopening on December 06, 2024 in Paris, France. General view inside Notre-Dame of Paris Cathedral before its reopening on December 06, 2024 in Paris, France. General view inside Notre-Dame of Paris Cathedral before its reopening on December 06, 2024 in Paris, France.

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☆ Zelenskyy said Ukraine could join NATO without Article 5 applying to its occupied territory
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementVolodymyr Zelenskyy has been pushing this week for NATO to invite Ukraine to join its alliance. He said on Sunday that NATO's self-defense pact wouldn't have to apply to Ukraine's occupied territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that his country could join NATO without the alliance's collective self-defense agreement applying to its territory occupied by Russia. Related Video Zelenskyy calls out Russian 'genocide' in Ukraine, demands action at UNSpeaking at a press conference in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said that any invitation for Ukraine to join NATO still has to recognize all of its territory as Ukrainian, including areas occupied by Russia. There would be no obligation for the rest, which is the Ukrainian territory seized by Russia in the east.

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☆ Israeli war Cabinet to discuss Lebanon cease-fire — while bombings continue
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Smith-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alexander Smith | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Israel’s war Cabinet was Tuesday meeting to discuss a plan for a cease-fire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah as its military launched fresh airstrikes on southern Beirut. Hezbollah says it is supporting the Palestinian resistance; Israel sees it as another attempt by Tehran to attack the Jewish State. Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said Monday his country’s security Cabinet would likely discuss the proposed truce when it met the following day. This was confirmed to NBC News by an Israeli source briefed on the matter. Lisa Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., submitted the proposal last week to Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, an adviser to the speaker, Ali Hamdan, said.

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☆ Pete Hegseth: Trump’s Pentagon pick aims for clash with top military leadership
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-14 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Haley Britzky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

A Princeton and Harvard grad, Hegseth was CEO of the conservative veteran’s advocacy organization, Concerned Veterans for America, beginning in 2006. He has 20 years’ experience in the military, having served in the Army National Guard as an infantry officer from 2002 to 2021 and leaving service as a major, according to military service records. He also worked as a guard at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from June 2004 to April 2005. Hegseth has been awarded two Bronze Stars from his combat service. In one June interview on Fox, Hegseth bemoaned the state of the US military’s procurement system and the threat posed by China’s growing military.

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☆ Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A sculpture bought for just £5 ($6) and used as a doorstop could sell for more than £2.5 million ($3.2 million) after a Scottish court gave the green light for its sale. In 1998, the bust was found being used to keep open a shed door on an industrial park, according to the Highland Council. In a May report on the proposed sale, the Highland Council said a private overseas buyer had contacted auction house Sotheby’s and put forward an offer of more than £2.5 million. Following a public consultation earlier this year, members of a council committee recommended that the bust should be sold. By June, the wider council had agreed to the proposal, the spokeswoman told CNN.

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Trump and the GOP have denied the tariffs would be inflationary, pointing to Trump’s success in imposing tariffs in his first term without reigniting inflation. Yet those tariffs, at $300 billion on selected Chinese goods, were much more targeted than the $3 trillion worth of blanket tariffs Trump is now expected to propose. And the inflationary environment is different now, too: During Trump’s first term, inflation only briefly ever climbed above 2%. It was Trump who appointed Powell to lead the Federal Reserve in his first term. But Trump has signaled a willingness this year to abandon the long-running principle of maintaining the Fed as an independent body.

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☆ Israel's clash with Hezbollah may be shaped by its past mistakes in Lebanon
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Israel launched a ground incursion that risks repeating its past mistakes in Lebanon. From 1985 to 2000, Israel occupied a 15-mile-wide "security zone" in southern Lebanon, ostensibly run by a Lebanese Christian faction backed by IDF troops. Israel returned in 2006, when 30,000 Israeli troops crossed the border in retaliation for a Hezbollah ambush of IDF troops in northern Israel. AdvertisementAs Israel's prime minister in 1998, Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to keep troops in southern Lebanon "whatever the cost." Currently two IDF divisions are operating in southern Lebanon, to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure there.

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☆ NATO's new chief is inheriting messy wars and a possible second Trump presidency. It's not going to be easy, security analysts say.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

And then, with the US presidential elections now less than five weeks away, there is the prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency. AdvertisementMark Rutte earned the nickname "Trump whisperer" after placating the former president on US commitments to NATO. According to Prakash, Rutte is "coming into the role from a certain outlook, and that outlook is essentially saying: 'We need to stand with America.'" NATO's deputy secretary-general, Mircea Geoană, told Euronews in July that China, as a direct enabler of Russia's war in Ukraine, threatened the alliance's security. AdvertisementShifting NATO away from Russia and toward other threats is going to be "perhaps the greatest challenge facing Mark Rutte," Prakash said.

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☆ A millennial couple details how they went from $150,000 in debt to a net worth of $1.5 million in a decade without elite jobs or risky investments
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Lawrence Delva-Gonzalez and his wife went from being $150,000 in debt to having a net worth of $1.5 million. AdvertisementLawrence Delva-Gonzalez, 41, was $150,000 in debt in 2012, working a job that paid $27,000 a year. A little over a decade later, he and his wife grew their net worth to over $1.5 million. By 2017, the two of them could pay down debt to the point of having a net worth of zero. Their net worth grew to over $450,000 in January 2021, over $650,000 in January 2022, over $800,000 in January 2023, and $1.53 million in August 2024, according to his blog The Neighborhood Finance Guy.

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☆ Netanyahu, at UN, vows that Israel will keep ‘degrading Hezbollah’ until its objectives are met
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 27, 2024. And that's exactly what we're doing ... we'll continue degrading Hezbollah until all our objectives are met," Netanyahu said. He said he traveled to the United Nations to refute the untruths he had heard from other leaders on the same rostrum earlier in the week. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 27, 2024. Israel is vowing to step up its attacks on Hezbollah until its citizens can return safely to their homes.

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☆ California wildfires: Bridge Fire explodes in size, man arrested in connection with Line Fire
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The blaze expanded from Los Angeles County into San Bernardino County, and as of Tuesday evening was 0% contained. “Tragically, homes have been lost,” San Bernardino County’s government said on Facebook late Tuesday, as the county proclaimed an emergency due to the blaze. Video by the San Bernardino County Fire Department showed firefighters and deputies performing rescue evacuations in Wrightwood on Tuesday evening as flames consumed brush and trees. Justin Wayne Halstenberg, 34, from Norco, allegedly started the fire in the area of Baseline Road and Alpin Street in the city of Highland on Sept. 5, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office said. The Line fire burns through in San Bernardino National Forest, Calif., on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Pontoon bridges are temporary structures that militaries often build to maintain critical supply lines when permanent structures are damaged or destroyed. NBC News was not able to verify whether the video shows the destruction of a pontoon bridge or when it was shot. Another video shared Thursday by the country’s air force chief, Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk, claimed to show Ukraine’s use of guided aerial bombs to destroy two “bridge crossings” in Kursk this week. Ukraine claimed responsibility for hitting the depot, which its army’s general staff said stored oil products used to supply the Russian army. Satellite images captured on Monday, the day after the alleged attack, show flames and thick clouds of black smoke billowing from the depot.

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☆ A millennial couple with a $1.2 million net worth explains how they both plan to retire by 35
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

They've managed to do all that while never making more than about $200,000 combined in yearly income from work. "We got our first house young, but we didn't buy all new furniture; we furnished it with hand-me-downs and thrift store finds," Wallace said. Between their three homes, which total $1.9 million in value, they have about $850,000 in equity, and they don't plan on paying them off early as interest rates on them are below 3.5%. Becoming millionairesThey hit their first half-million in 2021 and became millionaires in 2022, bringing their net worth above $1.2 million this year. They both plan on retiring in four years but anticipate working in part-time roles that better align with their passions.

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☆ 'House of the Dragon' director says she 'couldn't sleep' thinking about how to film Daemon's game-changing finale vision
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

By the season finale, Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) knows that she has no allies left in King's Landing. "Every time I'm in a scene like Rhaenyra and Alicent, I'm thinking about the war zone," she said. Matt Smith and Emma D'Arcy as Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen in the season two finale of "House of the Dragon." AdvertisementDaenerys Targaryen briefly appears in Daemon's vision in the season two finale of "House of the Dragon." What I love about the way Sara particularly wrote the season finale is that she grounded it in relationships.

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☆ With a fire burning just miles away, residents of a Washington town dig in
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Evan Bush | Evan Bush Is A Science Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

“There’s a lot of mistrust going on there.”As fire behavior grows intense because of climate change and overgrown forests, doubts can fester in rural communities as fire managers operate more conservatively than in the past. “Now, we’re seeing fires act more radically, make their own weather and be more unpredictable.”This dynamic is playing out in rural communities elsewhere. Stasiewicz said that based on her own focus groups, surveys and interviews, sentiments like Courtney’s are becoming more common in rural communities. Evacuation often carries a stiff financial cost, she said, and some rural residents worry their properties won’t be prioritized. “We can sometimes see rural communities lose compared to more developed areas.

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☆ Black Muslim group endorses Harris after its 'uncommitted' stance on Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Yamiche Alcindor | Yamiche Alcindor Is An Nbc News Washington Correspondent. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The first national Muslim organization that had declared itself "uncommitted" on President Joe Biden's re-election bid is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy. “She has shown more sympathy towards the people of Gaza then both President Biden and former President Donald Trump,” Suswell said of Harris. The group’s endorsement is significant given the backlash the Biden administration has faced from the Muslim community over its handling of the war. “It wasn’t an easy meeting for the president,” Suswell said. I think she’s more open to having conversations around ending the war.”Suswell added that her group was also moved to support Harris publicly because of her stances on domestic issues.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti CNN —Security forces protecting Haiti’s leader provided covering fire as he left a hospital in Port-au-Prince after an interview with CNN, in a stark illustration of the violence that continues to plague the gang-ravaged nation. Conille initially proceeded with the interview and did not remark on the gunfire — which is not an unusual thing to hear in Port-au-Prince. No one was injured and the prime minister was safely returned to his office. In May, Conille was appointed prime minister during the government’s transition period, with the aim to eventually lead Haiti to new elections. Conille had previously briefly served as prime minister from 2011 to 2012 during the presidency of Michel Martelly.

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☆ How a millennial couple went from $750,000 in debt to being on track to retire in their 40s
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Disha Spath, 38, and her husband were about $750,000 in debt a few years ago and were spending above their means. "I just want a balanced life and to not feel like I'm tied to my job," Spath said. Her student loans from medical school were $191,000, according to financial documents shared with BI. They eventually converted the home into a rental property for passive income, which allowed her to pay off her student loans quicker. Even though her job paid well, she had to take unpaid maternity leave for a few weeks when their first child was born.

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