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Stock market today: Asian shares advance after inflation data drives a rally on Wall Street
Asian shares mostly rose Thursday, following a rally on Wall Street driven by encouraging update on U.S. inflation. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 0.2% to 38,532.18. Bank of Japan data showed wholesale prices in Japan rose 3.8% in December last year compared to a year earlier, adding to pressures on the central bank to raise interest rates, possibly at a monetary policy meeting next week.
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Tropical Thailand takes a break from the heat as it experiences a run of cool weather
Tropical Thailand is experiencing an unusually cool stretch of weather that forecasters say could last until mid-February, leading many residents to dig out their sweaters and cardigans. Thursday morning’s forecast showed areas all over Thailand were feeling the cool, especially in the north. The Meteorological Department said temperatures in the north and northeast dropped as low as 8-9 degrees Celsius (46.4-48.2 degrees Fahrenheit), while on the mountains they hit 2 degrees Celsius.
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Many colleges are settling antisemitism cases. Some Republicans blast 'toothless' agreements
Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza. Trump has not said what he would like to see come of the investigations, but he has threatened to revoke federal money for schools that fall short of his demands. “Colleges will and must end the antisemitic propaganda or they will lose their accreditation and federal support,” Trump said in a virtual address to Jewish donors in September.
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He left his LA-area home to cover the wildfires. But the flames were barreling toward his front door
The warnings began on Saturday, Jan. 4. Tuesday morning, I drove from my home in Altadena toward the massive Pacific Palisades wildfire to shoot video for our coverage. EDITOR'S NOTE — Ryan Pearson, a Los Angeles-based entertainment video editor for The Associated Press, lost his home to the California wildfires last week.
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Italy’s Meloni to leverage strong ties with Trump — but as president whisperer or Trojan horse?
After forging unexpectedly fond ties with U.S. President Joe Biden, Italy’s right-wing Premier Giorgia Meloni is poised to leverage a more natural alliance with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that positions her as a key interlocutor between the U.S. and Europe. Weeks before his inauguration, Meloni met Trump at his Mar-a-Lago retreat, a visit that she said went “beyond expectations.”
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Rudy Giuliani to be first witness at trial over whether he keeps Florida home and World Series rings
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is set to be the first witness at a trial over whether he can keep his Florida condominium and three World Series rings or must turn them over to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment awarded to two Georgia election workers. Giuliani, 80, will testify before the same judge who last week found him in contempt for failing to turn over information on some of his assets to lawyers for the women. As punishment, Judge Lewis J. Liman banned Giuliani from introducing some evidence.
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College students charged in TikTok-inspired 'catch a predator' plot expected in court
Five Massachusetts college students are scheduled to make their first appearances in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man through a dating app into visiting campus last fall and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok. One of the students, a woman who texted with the man on Tinder, also faces a charge of witness intimidation. The man — a 22-year-old active-duty military service member — told police that he was in town for his grandmother’s funeral in October and “just wanted to be around people that were happy,” according to a campus police report.
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Trump's pick to oversee US public lands faces Senate hearing
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is due before a Senate committee Thursday as lawmakers consider the Republican's nomination to be chief steward of U.S. public lands and waters. President-elect Donald Trump in November tapped Burgum to be interior secretary and to lead the new National Energy Council, which is charged with promoting oil, gas and other energy development. The Interior Department oversees a half-billion acres of federal land and vast areas offshore.
TODAY
Over 12,000 cartons of chicken broth sold at Walmart recalled in 9 states
Over 12,000 cartons of Great Value chicken broth sold at Walmart have been recalled in nine states due to potential packaging issues that could cause the product to spoil.
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Battle over 'conversion therapy' ban, separation of powers before Wisconsin Supreme Court
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday over whether a Republican-controlled legislative committee’s rejection of a state agency rule that would ban the practice of “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ people was unconstitutional. It is also part of a broader effort by the Democratic governor, who has vetoed Republican bills targeting transgender high school athletes, to rein in the power of the GOP-controlled Legislature. Here are things to know about the case: What is “conversion therapy”?
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Democrats' crisis of the future: the biggest states that back them are shrinking
California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. With America's population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states to areas controlled by Republicans. Coming out of a presidential election where they lost all seven swing states, Democrats are facing a demographic challenge that could reduce their path to winning the U.S. House of Representatives or the White House for the long term.
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As flames linger, talk turns to rebuilding Los Angeles neighborhoods leveled by wildfires
Staggered after one of the most destructive natural disasters in Southern California history, thousands of heartbroken families, burned-out business owners and beleaguered leaders across Los Angeles County are beginning to ponder another monumental task: rebuilding what was lost and charting a path forward. Alex Rosewood and nearly her entire family in Altadena, northeast of Los Angeles, lost their homes — her father, whom she and her husband were living with, and her aunt, uncle and cousin next door.
Reuters
India's ISRO carries out successful space docking mission
BENGALURU (Reuters) -India on Thursday became the fourth nation in the world to achieve space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its share in the rapidly growing $400 billion global space market. At around 9 a.m. IST (0330 GMT), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) carried out the highly anticipated Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), a spokesperson for the agency said. Two ISRO satellites, Target and Chaser — each roughly the size of a large refrigerator — successfully latched onto each other and unlatched after a series of complex orbital maneuvers.
CNN
South Korean president arrested by anti-corruption investigators after weekslong showdown
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has so far refused to cooperate with investigators after he was arrested for questioning on Wednesday, the country’s anti-corruption agency said.
CNN
A father at the bedside of his son, a surfer and a woman who stayed behind with her beloved pets are among wildfire victims
An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 24 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles. The father was found at his son’s bedside.
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Founder of muckraking financial information firm Hindenburg Research calls it quits
Nate Anderson, the founder of the muckraking financial information firm Hindenburg Research, says he is disbanding the organization after it finished the pipeline of work it set out to do. Hindenburg, founded in 2017, has a track record of sending the stock prices of its targets tumbling by disclosing fraud and other abuses in financial markets that it has unearthed through deep research. In one of its recent projects, it focused on the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, accusing it of “a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme.”
NBC News
California wildfires: What we know about L.A.-area fires, maps, what caused them, who is affected and more
Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted last week and roared across the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least 25 people, including some who died trying to prevent the fires from engulfing their homes.
AFP
AFP photographer's search for his mother in the Nazi camps
AFP photographer Eric Schwab recorded the horrors of the Holocaust -- the crematoria, the piles of skeletal bodies and emaciated faces -- as he went from one Nazi extermination camp to the next in the spring of 1945 searching for his mother.Schwab, who was born in Hamburg to a French father and a German Jewish mother, was one of the first photographers to work for AFP after it was refounded in August 1944 as Paris was liberated.
USA TODAY
Reports: Trump considering executive order to try to rescue TikTok from sell-or-ban law
President-elect Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order to try to save TikTok as the deadline nears that could see the platform banned.
AFP
Life after the unthinkable: Shoah survivors who began again in Israel
For years, Auschwitz survivor Naftali Furst kept his story to himself.Here are their stories: - Naftali Furst, born in Slovakia in 1932: daughter, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren - Naftali Furst was only 10 when he and his family were rounded up and sent to a concentration camp, ending up in Auschwitz in November 1944.

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Stock market today: Asian shares advance after inflation data drives a rally on Wall Street

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He left his LA-area home to cover the wildfires. But the flames were barreling toward his front door

Italy’s Meloni to leverage strong ties with Trump — but as president whisperer or Trojan horse?

Rudy Giuliani to be first witness at trial over whether he keeps Florida home and World Series rings

College students charged in TikTok-inspired 'catch a predator' plot expected in court

Trump's pick to oversee US public lands faces Senate hearing

Over 12,000 cartons of chicken broth sold at Walmart recalled in 9 states

Battle over 'conversion therapy' ban, separation of powers before Wisconsin Supreme Court

Democrats' crisis of the future: the biggest states that back them are shrinking

As flames linger, talk turns to rebuilding Los Angeles neighborhoods leveled by wildfires

India's ISRO carries out successful space docking mission

South Korean president arrested by anti-corruption investigators after weekslong showdown

A father at the bedside of his son, a surfer and a woman who stayed behind with her beloved pets are among wildfire victims

Founder of muckraking financial information firm Hindenburg Research calls it quits

California wildfires: What we know about L.A.-area fires, maps, what caused them, who is affected and more

AFP photographer's search for his mother in the Nazi camps

Reports: Trump considering executive order to try to rescue TikTok from sell-or-ban law

Life after the unthinkable: Shoah survivors who began again in Israel