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How the NFL Moved the Vikings-Rams Playoff Game Away From the L.A. Fires

Monday night’s game in Arizona between the Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings is the first time the league has relocated a postseason game since 1936.

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Lebanon Names Nawaf Salam, a Diplomat and Jurist, as Prime Minister

The selection of Mr. Salam was seen as a blow to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party that has acted as the real power in Lebanon for decades.

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Less Traffic, Faster Buses: Congestion Pricing’s First Week

Early data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority suggests that traffic has dropped around Manhattan’s core.

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Greenland to Trump: Not for Sale but Let’s Talk Business

The country’s prime minister said that while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with the U.S. — yesterday, today and tomorrow.”

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Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth

She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

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Cleveland-Cliffs Signals a Possible New Bid for U.S. Steel

The company’s renewed interest comes after the Biden administration blocked Nippon Steel from acquiring the onetime American powerhouse.

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L.A. Wildfires Ramp Up Difficulty of Hosting 2028 Olympics

Rebuilding areas ravaged by wildfires will present a daunting challenge, but the flip side could be the “compelling image of a city emerging from the ashes.”

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What Caused the Palisades Fire? The Site of the Ignition Point Holds Clues

In the hills above Pacific Palisades, there is crime scene tape and scattered debris, clues to what may have caused the initial fire that eventually raged through thousands of structures.

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Biden Aides Warned Putin as Russia’s Shadow War Threatened Air Disaster

The White House scrambled to get a message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last year after U.S. intelligence agencies said a Russian military unit was preparing to send explosive packages on cargo planes.

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Trump Supporters Go All In for Pete Hegseth With Money and Coordination

Conservative organizations are targeting Republican senators, saying that they will pay a price if they do not back the president-elect’s choice for defense secretary.

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Stuart Spencer, Political Pioneer Who Helped Propel Reagan’s Rise, Dies at 97

One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but Reagan was his prized candidate.

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Biden Will Deliver Final Foreign Policy Speech on Monday

The president will give a speech on Monday arguing that he strengthened U.S. alliances during his four years in office and that America’s adversaries are weaker than when he took over.

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Rachel Maddow Will Host Nightly Shows on MSNBC for Trump’s First 100 Days

The cable news network rejiggers its prime-time lineup ahead of Donald Trump’s second stint in the White House.

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Judge Allows Release of Half of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump Cases

Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents case, blocked a volume about that matter from being shown to Congress but allowed the release of a volume about the election case.

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RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Obscures America’s Unhealthy Past

Medical historians say that the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” obscures a past during which this country’s people ate, smoked and drank things that mostly left them unwell.

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When to Report, and When to Help Out

Kellen Browning, a reporter based in San Francisco who has been covering the wildfires, was getting requests from evacuees, and he had a decision to make.

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Oil Tycoon Harold Hamm Throwing an Inauguration Day Party

Harold G. Hamm, the founder of the Oklahoma-based Continental Resources, and other oil and gas companies stand to profit from Donald Trump’s energy policies.

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News Outlets Batten Down the Hatches for Trump’s Return

Media organizations are taking unusual steps to prepare for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration.

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Dementia Cases in the U.S. Will Surge in the Coming Decades, Researchers Say

By 2060, new dementia cases per year could double to one million because of the growing population of older Americans, a study predicts.

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RFK Jr. Would ‘Significantly Undermine’ Public Health, a Group of Experts Says

A coalition opposing the nominee for health secretary includes faculty members from leading U.S. academic institutions, including public health schools at Yale and Harvard.

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Melania Trump Says She Plans to Be at White House Full Time

Mrs. Trump did not immediately move in to the White House when her husband was inaugurated in 2017, but she said the second stay was going to be more routine. “I already packed,” she told Fox News.

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Trump’s Reckless Greenland Comments Are Not a Joke

China and Russia are listening.

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Montclair NJ Public Schools Are Closed as ‘Precautionary Measure’

Local police are investigating a “security concern” that led to the closure, the school district said. The mayor said there was “no immediate threat.”

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Elon Musk Is an ‘Evil Person,’ Steve Bannon Says

The comments highlighted rifts within the U.S. right wing and between two men who have been influential advisers to President-elect Donald J. Trump.

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Talks on Gaza Cease-Fire and Hostage Releases: What to Know

The negotiations appeared to be gaining momentum on Monday as Arab and American mediators pushed for an agreement before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office.

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Russia and Ukraine Battle Inside Kursk, With Waves of Tanks, Drones and North Koreans

Ukrainian soldiers are describing fierce clashes as Russian forces try to retake territory in the Kursk region that could be key in eventual cease-fire talks.

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Falling Child Vaccinations

U.S. vaccination rates against once-common childhood diseases are falling.

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L.A.’s Private Firefighters, and U.S. Childhood Vaccination Rates Fall

Plus, remembering a civil rights Freedom Rider.

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Biden Administration Adopts Rules to Guide A.I.’s Global Spread

New rules aim to keep advanced technology out of China and to ensure that cutting-edge artificial intelligence is developed by the United States and its allies.

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OpenAI Courts Trump With Vision for ‘A.I. in America’

The maker of ChatGPT hopes to spur investment from the Middle East and avoid strict regulations on the development of new technologies.

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