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Volunteers try to douse Gail's home and yard to keep the flames at bay
Stories of heroism emerge as Los Angeles infernos rage
LOS ANGELES — Acrid smoke shrouded the sky in Altadena, California, as Gail watched flames from the raging Eaton Fire swallow her next-door neighbor’s house.Each ember carried by powerful gusts of wind could be the spark that ignites the home she has lived in for the past decade – and all she can do is watch.Although she’s made several calls to 911, Gail tells CNN “obviously they’re very busy.”Several fires are raging around Los Angeles, devastating neighborhoods and straining firefighting resources. At least five people have died, and multiple others have sustained “significant injuries,” authorities have said.As flames spread to Gail’s property, burning down her garage, community members came to help.“I don’t know who all these guys are who are helping to save my...
January 09, 2025

Stories of heroism emerge as Los Angeles infernos rage

Billy Crystal said he and his wife, Janice, were 'heartbroken'
Billy Crystal and Paris Hilton among celebrities to lose homes in wildfires
LOS ANGELES — Paris Hilton and Billy Crystal are among the celebrities who have lost homes in the deadly wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area.More than 1,000 structures have been destroyed as six separate blazes burn in and around the city, which is dotted with film stars' mansions.Some of the worst devastation was in the scenic enclave of Pacific Palisades, where a wind-whipped inferno exploded from several hundred acres to more than 15,000 in size since Tuesday.A swathe of the neighborhood, which is a haven of hillside streets nestled against the Santa Monica Mountains and winding down to beaches along the Pacific Ocean, was reduced to ash.Actor James Woods, who starred in films including Nixon and Casino, broke down in tears on CNN as he described losing his Pacific Palisades...
January 09, 2025

Billy Crystal and Paris Hilton among celebrities to lose homes in wildfires

Takeshi Ebisawa poses with a rocket launcher during a meeting with an informant and two undercover Danish police officers at a warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 3, 2021
Alleged Yakuza leader admits trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar
WASHINGTON — An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash, according to the US Department of Justice.During an undercover investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2021, Takeshi Ebisawa tried to sell the materials – including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium – to someone he believed was an Iranian general who wanted them for a nuclear weapons program, the department said in a statement.The 60-year-old Japanese national on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a New York court to conspiring with a network of associates to traffic the nuclear materials out of Myanmar, it said.He also admitted to international narcotics...
January 09, 2025

Alleged Yakuza leader admits trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have defended the visa program
Visa row fuels anxiety for Indians eyeing American dream
NEW DELHI — Ashish Chauhan dreams of pursuing an MBA at an American university next year — a goal he describes as being "stamped in his brain".The 29-year-old finance professional from India (whose name has been changed on request) hopes to eventually work in the US, but says he now feels conflicted amid an immigration row sparked by President-elect Donald Trump's supporters over a long-standing US visa program.The H-1B visa program, which brings skilled foreign workers to the US, faces criticism for undercutting American workers but is praised for attracting global talent. The president-elect, once a critic, now supports the 34-year-old program, while tech billionaire Elon Musk defends it as key to securing top engineering talent.Indian nationals like Chauhan dominate...
January 09, 2025

Visa row fuels anxiety for Indians eyeing American dream

Joe Biden during a ceremony to award the Presidential Citizens Medal in the East Room of the White House on January 02, 2025 in Washington
Joe Biden says he could have defeated Donald Trump
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden has said he thinks he would have defeated Donald Trump and won re-election in November.Speaking to USA Today in an exclusive interview, Biden did, however, add that he was unsure if he would have had the stamina for another four-year term."So far, so good," the 82-year-old said. "But who knows what I'm going to be when I'm 86 years old?"In the wide-ranging interview with Susan Page, Biden also said he was still considering pre-emptive pardons for foes of Donald Trump, including former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney and former senior health official Dr Anthony Fauci.In the interview published on Wednesday, Biden said he had been "very straightforward with Trump" about the potential pardons during their Oval...
January 09, 2025

Joe Biden says he could have defeated Donald Trump

A Jet Blue jet taxis at Boston's Logan International Airport (Files)
Police arrest air passenger who opened emergency exit, prompting security concerns
BOSTON — The Massachusetts State Police were called to Boston’s Logan International Airport Tuesday evening after a JetBlue passenger opened an aircraft door, deploying the emergency slide, the police and airline told CNN.At around 7:30 p.m., authorities responded to JetBlue flight 161 after a passenger “who wanted to deplane opened an aircraft door suddenly and without warning,” police said in a statement.Other passengers quickly restrained the individual until troopers arrived to detain them for further questioning. The arrested passenger is expected to face charges and will be arraigned in East Boston District Court on Wednesday morning, police said.“A customer, for unknown reasons, opened an overwing exit while the aircraft was taxiing at Logan, causing the deployment of an...
January 08, 2025

Police arrest air passenger who opened emergency exit, prompting security concerns

Venezuela's Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia waves while he and compatriot Maria Corina Machado are awarded the EU's top human rights honor, at the European Parliament, Dec.17, 2024
Venezuela's opposition candidate says his son-in-law was kidnapped in Caracas
CARACAS — Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González says his son-in-law was kidnapped on Tuesday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.González was traveling in the United States when his son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped while on his way to drop off his children at school.In a post on social media platform X, formerly Twitter, González said “hooded men, dressed in black” intercepted his vehicle and forced Tudares into a “gold colored van”.González did not offer any information on the children, and whether they had also been kidnapped. But his daughter, Mariana, in a post on X had clarified that the attackers only took her husband, and got the children out of the car.The kidnapping happened despite a significant increase in police and military presence...
January 08, 2025

Venezuela's opposition candidate says his son-in-law was kidnapped in Caracas

Fire crews battle the Palisades Fire as it burns multiple structures in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025
Thousands told to evacuate homes as wildfire rips through southern California
LOS ANGELES — More than 30,000 people are under evacuation orders in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles after a wildfire picked up by extreme winds tore through the area on Tuesday evening.Los Angeles fire chief said 10,000 homes are under threat of being destroyed by the blaze in the affluent area which is dotted by celebrity residences.California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he found "many structures already destroyed" during a visit to the impacted area, although assessed it was too early to see the extent of the damage.Winds were expected to increase overnight in what the National Weather service has warned could be among the most "life-threatening" and strongest to hit Southern California in over a decade. The winds are fanning two fires in the...
January 08, 2025

Thousands told to evacuate homes as wildfire rips through southern California

The blasts occurred early on Tuesday at an arms depot in Holguín
Thirteen Cuban soldiers missing after explosions rock ammo depot
HAVANA — Thirteen soldiers, including four officers and nine soldiers, are missing following a series of powerful explosions at an arms and ammunition depot in Cuba's Holguín province, the country's armed forces confirmed late Tuesday.The explosions rattled the small rural community of Melones, 450 miles (724 km) south and east of Havana, early on Tuesday. Officials had previously said the blasts were set off by a fire at a construction site.The incident is still under investigation, authorities said.Videos on social media showed plumes of dark smoke and flames above a forested tree line near Melones.Soldiers and local police guarded access routes to the site while rescue teams and firefighters worked to put out the flames.Authorities swiftly evacuated 1,245 residents from areas...
January 08, 2025

Thirteen Cuban soldiers missing after explosions rock ammo depot

The president-elect said the US needed Greenland for economic secuirty
Trump ramps up threats to gain control of Greenland and Panama Canal
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday intensified his push for American expansionism, refusing to rule out using military force to add Greenland to the United States and retake control of the Panama Canal.In a wide-ranging news conference at Mar-a-Lago — his second since winning the 2024 election — he also said he could use “economic force” to turn Canada into the United States’ 51st state.“You get rid of that artificially drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like — and it would also be much better for national security,” Trump said at his Florida estate.But outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there isn't "a snowball's chance in hell" of the two countries merging.The news conference was initially billed as an...
January 08, 2025

Trump ramps up threats to gain control of Greenland and Panama Canal

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