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Los Angeles CNN —Acrid smoke shrouded the sky in Altadena, California, as Gail watched flames from the raging Eaton Fire swallow her next-door neighbor’s house. The wildfires in Los Angeles County together consumed thousands of acres in just over a day, with the blaze near Altadena quadrupling in size in a matter of hours Wednesday. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said several of his employees have lost their homes to the flames. “This is a tragic time in our history here in Los Angeles, but a time when we’re really tested and see who we really are,” Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news conference Wednesday morning. Video Ad Feedback Timelapse video shows Los Angeles wildfire spread rapidly 00:45 - Source: CNNHarsh winds have made the fires unpredictable.

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☆ Opinion | Disasters Have Made L.A. What It Is
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( David L. Ulin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Tuesday, as a series of aggressive wildfires began ripping through Southern California, I found myself having an unlikely reaction: the desire to be there. I mean this not as a thrill seeker or fire follower but rather as someone who wanted to go home. I have lived in Los Angeles since 1991, when I moved from New York. My wife and I raised our family in Los Angeles, and in June my father entered an assisted-living facility in Pasadena, not far from what is now the Eaton fire evacuation zone. This is my father’s first go-round as a California resident, and he is right to be afraid.

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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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One night in December 2019, Emma Louthan realized in a mild panic that she needed a gift for a child’s birthday party the next day. She grabbed acrylic paint and some of her daughter’s old clothes and began creating an aquatic scene: pink koi swimming beneath white and green water lilies. The birthday boy wasn’t much impressed by the artful present, but it planted a seed in Ms. Louthan’s mind. A few months later, she tried her hand at a collection of about a dozen hand-painted adult sweatshirts and found a more appreciative audience. It was the beginning of Covid lockdowns, and Ms. Louthan, an artist in Philadelphia who graduated from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture, was working as a freelance textile designer while at home with her husband and 1-year-old daughter.

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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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Two other fires have erupted in Los Angeles County: The 500-acre strong Hurst fire north of San Fernando, and the Eaton fire in Altadena, which has grown to 1,000 acres in a matter of hours. • No containment expected: There is no possibility of containing the Los Angeles fires tonight, and firefighters are focusing on saving lives instead, said David Acuna, the CAL Fire spokesperson. • Firefighter warnings: Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. The Los Angeles Fire Department is also asking off-duty members to call in to help battle the blaze. • Schools close: Five schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will close on Wednesday, and classes are moving online.

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☆ 'Our entire town appears to be gone': 3 wildfire evacuees describe the devastation in Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Jane Zhang | Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

There's a reason that it's impossible to buy in and that Bill Hader lives on our street. We stayed at our friend's house until they lost power, then checked into the Beverly Hilton. It was like all of West Los Angeles had descended upon the hotel — it took 40 minutes just to pull into the driveway. On Tuesday afternoon, she and her significant other evacuated to her parents' home in another part of Los Angeles. My close friend Alisa lives up the street, so I called to check on her and her family.

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☆ Jewish homes and businesses defaced with antisemitic graffiti in France
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Caroline Baum | Sérène Nourrisson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —At least 10 Jewish homes and businesses around Paris and a synagogue in the northern French city of Rouen have been defaced, according to police, with antisemitism being considered as a motive. The acts of vandalism came as France marked 10 years since the Paris terrorist attacks that shook the country. A rabbi’s home and a synagogue in Rouen were also targeted with antisemitic messages and swastikas scrawled on the buildings. French interior minister Bruno Retailleau denounced the vandalism targeting the French Jewish community, and the growing antisemitism. “The Jewish community represents less than 1% of the population, and is the victim of 57% of all anti-religious attacks,” Retailleau told French media Tuesday.

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☆ Billy Crystal, Ricki Lake and more celebrities impacted by ongoing Los Angeles wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —As at least four wildfires rage around Los Angeles, numerous members of the Hollywood community have been impacted, including Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore, Anna Faris and Ricki Lake. In statement to CNN on Wednesday, Crystal said, “Words cannot describe the enormity of the devastation we are witnessing and experiencing. Lake added that she is grieving the “immeasurable” loss of her home, where she and her husband wed three years ago. Our favorite restaurants, leveled,” Moore wrote on her Instagram page Wednesday. It is the most destructive to ever occur in Los Angeles County, according to CalFire data.

Persons: Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore, Anna Faris, Ricki, Crystal, ” “ Janice, ”, “, James Woods, CNN Paris Hilton, Malibu, Sandra Lee, ” Lee, Steve Guttenberg, CNN Mandy Moore, Moore, ” Moore, Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag’s, Pratt, Faris, Anna, Anthony C, Marrone, Joey Berlin Organizations: CNN, Hollywood, malibu, Phoenix, Fire Locations: Los Angeles, London, Palisades, Eaton, Los Angeles County, East Los Angeles, Altadena, Pasadena, LA’s westside, Malibu, Santa Monica, LA County

☆ ‘It Was Biblical’: Ash and Flame Upend Life in Southern California
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Shawn Hubler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It has long been a local article of faith: Southern California disasters are rarely as sweeping as they seem. Delaware and Rhode Island could fit, with room to spare, in Los Angeles County. A drive from Pacific Palisades to Pasadena takes nearly an hour, even without traffic. When the Los Angeles riots erupted in 1992, Americans recoiled at the fires silhouetting the downtown skyline. Not shown were the jacaranda-lined streets and placid suburbs where the rest of Southern California watched the mayhem on TV.

Persons: recoiled Locations: Southern California, Delaware, Rhode, Los Angeles County, Pacific Palisades, Pasadena, Angeles

When the Los Angeles riots erupted in 1992, Americans recoiled at the fires silhouetting the downtown skyline. Mansions were reduced to ash in Pacific Palisades, a West Los Angeles celebrity enclave. Credit... Philip Cheung for The New York TimesImage The toll of the fires was only beginning to take shape on Wednesday. Credit... Isadora Kosofsky for The New York TimesImage Southern California is critically dry, and its landscape is parched. “There’s a kind of mantra that when the wind blows, Los Angeles burns,” said D.J.

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☆ Wildfires burn out of control across Los Angeles area and kill 5 as thousands flee homes
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

With thousands of firefighters already attacking the flames, the Los Angeles Fire Department put out a plea for off-duty and out-of-state firefighters to help. The Palisades Fire burns near homes amid a powerful windstorm on January 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, California. An aircraft drops fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm, in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 7, 2025. Firefighters work at the site of a brush fire pushed by gusting Santa Ana winds on Jan. 7, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. "We are absolutely not out of danger yet," Los Angeles city Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley said.

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☆ The oldest living Olympic gold medallist has died aged 103, after surviving the Holocaust. Here are two things that may have helped her live so long.
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-07 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ágnes Keleti, an Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast, has died at the age of 103. She entered her first Olympic games at 31, after injury and the Holocaust stalled her career. When she died on Thursday, Ágnes Keleti was the oldest living Olympic gold medallist, at 103 years old. Keleti won four gold and two silver medals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, at the age of 31. Keleti with two of her Olympic gold medals.

Persons: Ágnes Keleti, Keleti, ATTILA KISBENEDEK Organizations: Melbourne Olympic Games, Getty, International Society of Olympic, University of Michigan, International, of Geriatric Psychiatry, International Society of Olympic Historians, Research, BMC Medicine Locations: Tokyo, Hungary, Helsinki, Melbourne, Israel, AFP

☆ NASA presents two new plans in the race to return samples from Mars to Earth
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-07 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA. The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. The agency’s Mars Sample Return Strategic Review team assessed 11 of the studies and made recommendations to NASA, which were then further refined by leadership. NASA/JPL-CaltechJourney from the Martian surfaceMars Sample Return is humanity’s first mission to bring scientific samples from a habitable planet back to Earth, Fox said. That vehicle will be loaded with the samples collected by Perseverance, and then it will lift off, rendezvousing with the ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter in orbit around Mars.

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☆ The oldest living Olympic gold medallist has died aged 103, after surviving the Holocaust. Here are 2 things that may have helped her live so long.
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-07 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

☆ Netanyahu vows to ‘settle accounts’ after three Israelis killed in West Bank shooting attack
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-06 | by ( Max Saltman | Mike Schwartz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to “settle accounts” after gunmen killed three Israeli settlers and injured eight other people in a shooting attack on two cars and a bus in the occupied West Bank. The vehicles were targeted on Route 55 in Al-Funduq, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, according to Israeli authorities. The road, which snakes through the northern West Bank, passes through the Jewish settlement of Kedumim. No one will get away.”Netanyahu is expected to hold a cabinet meeting on the West Bank tomorrow. This isn’t the first time in recent months that this part of the West Bank has experienced intercommunal violence.

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☆ Adrien Brody dedicates his Globe win for ‘The Brutalist’ to his immigrant ancestors
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-06 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The movie, which stars Adrien Brody, was nominated in seven categories and won four Globes total on Sunday. At the core of ‘The Brutalist,’ it is really a story about the human capacity for creation, so I would be remiss to not acknowledge my fellow nominees. Daniel, Colman, Timmy, Sebastian, Sebastian, Ralph. You guys really just — you reached such heights with your work, and you are such inspirations to me. You know, this story is really the character’s journey is very reminiscent of my mother’s and my ancestors’ journey of fleeing war and coming to this great country.

Persons: CNN —, ”, emigrates, Adrien Brody, Brody, Daniel, Colman, Timmy, Sebastian, Ralph, Brady, Mona, Georgina, I’m Organizations: CNN, Golden Globe, Globes, Golden Globes, CAA Locations: United States, “

Billionaires Darwin Deason, Michael Dell, and Tony Pritzker are trying to offload homes right now. Their properties for sale range from a $31 million penthouse in Boston to a $195 million LA estate. It can take a long time for extremely expensive or unique homes to find buyers. ADBillionaires regularly want to offload their homes, but the housing market can present some unique challenges for the wealthiest home sellers. ADA handful of billionaires, however, have homes they're still trying to sell.

Persons: Darwin Deason, Michael Dell, Tony Pritzker, Gordon Getty, Getty, Rupert Murdoch's Organizations: of Wings, . Media, Fox Corporation, News Corp Locations: Boston, Berkeley, San Francisco, Manhattan, California

☆ Herbert Kickl: Austrian president tasks far-right leader with forming government
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-06 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Reuters —Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen tasked the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) on Monday with forming a coalition government after a centrist bid to assemble one without the FPO collapsed unexpectedly over the weekend. That task fell to the conservative People’s Party (OVP) and its leader Chancellor Karl Nehammer. OVP now open to talksNehammer had long insisted his party would not govern with Kickl, saying the FPO leader was a conspiracy theorist and security threat. His interim successor as OVP leader, Christian Stocker, said on Sunday his party would join coalition talks led by Kickl. Van der Bellen has repeatedly said he will remain vigilant to ensure “cornerstones of democracy” including human rights, independent media and Austria’s membership of the European Union are respected.

Persons: Alexander Van der Bellen, Herbert Kickl, Van der Bellen, “, ” Van der Bellen, Kickl, ”, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Nehammer’s, Nehammer, Christian Stocker, Wilfried Haslauer, Stocker Organizations: Reuters, Austrian, Party, Greens, People’s Party, SS, Jewish, OVP, ORF, of Commerce, Ukraine, Russia, European Locations: Russia, Austria, Salzburg, European Union

☆ Why attackers use vehicles as weapons to kill innocent people in crowds
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-05 | by ( Holly Yan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

Radical Islamist terror groups such as ISIS and AQAP, al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, have long advised supporters to use heavy vehicles as deadly weapons. Why some choose vehicles over other weapons“A vehicle attack doesn’t require any special training,” CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen said. The attack killed 32-year-old civil rights activist Heather Heyer. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of the vehicle attack. Why it happened: ISIS said the attack was retaliation for France’s role in the fight against ISIS.

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☆ Israeli military enlists first group of ultra-Orthodox recruits into brigade
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-05 | by ( Lauren Izso | Michael Rios | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service. By the end of the day, about 100 additional ultra-Orthodox recruits will be enlisted for reserve service, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that ultra-Orthodox Jews could not be exempt from military service, as they had been since the founding of Israel. The vast majority of ultra-Orthodox Jews do not participate in the country’s mandatory military service. The Israeli military said Sunday it would enlist more recruits throughout the month to join those already recruited in basic training.

Persons: “, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas Locations: Iran, Israel

☆ I'm in my late 60s, and I'm single with no kids. I have grief about not being a grandma.
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-04 | by ( Natasha Blair | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I wanted kids, but worried about what people — and my parents — would think if I was a single mom. I'm now in my late 60s and my companion is my fluffy dog Poppy. Now in my late 60s, I have very few relatives but have never stopped wishing I could be surrounded by a loving caring family. As I've grown older, I've realized that having a warm loving family is a wonderful thing. As their children got older and married, their families expanded.

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☆ World's oldest living Olympic gold medalist Agnes Keleti dies at 103
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-03 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medalist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews in World War II, died at the age of 103 on Thursday, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said. Oded Balilty / AP fileThe HOC said Keleti escaped deportation to Nazi death camps, where hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were killed, by hiding in a village south of Budapest with false papers. She won her first gold at the Helsinki games in 1952 aged 31, when most gymnasts had long been retired, the HOC said. Keleti reached the peak of her career in Melbourne in 1956, where she won four gold medals and became the oldest female gymnast to win gold, the HOC said. Her 10 Olympic medals, including five golds, rank Keleti as the second most successful Hungarian athlete of all time, the HOC said.

Persons: Agnes Keleti, Agnes Klein, Keleti, Oded Organizations: Hungarian Olympic Committee, National Gymnastics Association, International Olympic, Helsinki Locations: Budapest, Hungary, Herzliya, Israel, Nazi, Melbourne, Hungarian

The L-shaped Archer barriers that were installed one day later are portable, reusable and designed to stop a car that is careening toward a pedestrian-only area. Archer barriers were installed on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Thursday. George Walker IV / APWhen asked about where the Archer barriers came from, Kirkpatrick told reporters: “Actually, we have them. He confirmed that the barriers that appeared on Bourbon Street on Thursday looked the same as the ones from eight years ago. When asked Thursday about whether she was upset she hadn’t known about the Archer barriers, Kirkpatrick demurred.

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The Summary A new paper describes a test that can differentiate between different types of asthma via a nasal swab. The research focused on Black and Puerto Rican children, who have higher rates of asthma and asthma-related deaths than white children. The research builds on previous studies that have similarly detected asthma via nasal swabs. Celedón said the nasal swab test could help researchers identify people with T2-low asthma for the purpose of enrolling them in studies that test new treatments for that target. “The place to be cautious is, does it make sense to treat based on this?” she said, referring to the nasal swab test results.

Persons: Dr, Juan Celedón, “, ”, Celedón, Gurjit Hershey, Hershey, Jessica Hui, “ It’s Organizations: University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Food and Drug Administration, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Jewish Health Locations: Puerto Rican, U.S, Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Puerto, UPMC, Denver

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