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On Monday, President Biden will give a farewell speech at the State Department focused on his foreign policy legacy. Ahead of that address, Nick Schifrin sat down with one of the key architects of Biden’s foreign policy, National Security Advisor

Dramatic aerial video shows ‘staggering’ devastation of Los Angeles fires  USA TODAY Los Angeles fires: More than 10,000 homes and businesses destroyed, at least 10 dead  Fox News Pacific Palisades residents return, discover ‘our whole world got taken from us’  Los Angeles Times

Menendez was convicted in July of 16 corruption charges brought after an FBI raid on his home in 2022 turned up $150,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in cash, much of which prosecutors alleged was the result of bribes paid

At least 11 people were reported dead in fires raging across Los Angeles. Five lived near each other in a ravaged Altadena neighborhood.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including President-elect Trump’s sentencing in New York, Trump’s comments about claiming Greenland and the Panama Canal and the

School districts in and around Los Angeles shut down because of the fires. That includes LAUSD, the second largest school district in the country. (Image credit: Jireh Deng for NPR)

Supported by the Rev. Jerry Falwell among others in the 1970s, Bryant and her “Save Our Children” coalition opposed gay rights around the country, denouncing the “deviant lifestyle” of the gay community and calling gay people “human garbage.”

In response to the devastating fires raging in LA, a small restaurant in Surf City USA has become a channel for big help — from locals to people across the country — to support their neighbors up north. (Image credit:

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury’s surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.

Women from a Kyiv suburb create an all-female volunteer air defense unit. They say it’s helped them deal with the trauma of a 2022 massacre by Russian troops.