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Trump says he wants to buy Greenland. It’s not for sale.
Neither Greenland nor Denmark want this to happen, to be clear. And Greenland is not for sale. In fact, there's a growing movement in Greenland for independence. Here's one member of Greenland's parliament talking with CNN.
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As all of this drama has played out, Trump's son, Donald Jr., was on a trip to Greenland. He claimed it was a personal visit with no government business involved. But the president-elect revealed on social media later that his representatives were part of Don Jr. 's entourage. Let's turn now to Meta and its decision to eliminate the company's fact-checking program.
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These changes will affect billions of users on Facebook and Instagram. Here's Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking on Tuesday, explaining the move.
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Now, instead of traditional fact-checkers, the company will rely on community notes, similar to those found on X and Wikipedia. That involves users, not trained fact-checkers, adding context and fact-checks to posts, photos, and other content. Zuckerberg attributed the change in Meta's content moderation policies to the shift in the political environment.
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And observers have noted the system was never without its issues.
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Ben Goggin is a technology editor with NBC News.
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Users may also expect to see changes to the type of content they see on Meta platforms. The social media giant had previously attempted to limit political posts. That will no longer be the case.
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Recently, Dana White, the UFC president and Trump ally, also joined Meta's board. Zuckerberg is far from the only big tech CEO to make recent attempts at forging a warmer relationship with President-elect Trump. Leaders from companies like Apple, Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI have pledged a million dollars apiece for Trump's inaugural committee.
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Some from their personal checkbooks, others from company coffers.
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But first, President-elect Trump talked yesterday about expanding the United States in what seems like an implausible way, seizing control of the Panama Canal and Greenland. And he told reporters he hasn't ruled out using military force or economic coercion to do so.
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The United States says a genocide is taking place in Sudan and accuses the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group, of murdering children, including infants, quote, on an ethnic basis. The State Department also says the group has targeted women and girls with sexual violence since the start of the country's civil war that broke out in April of 2023.
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The conflict has led to a widespread famine and the world's biggest refugee crisis. More than 11 million people are displaced, according to the United Nations. Along with the State Department's announcement, the Treasury Department issued sanctions against RSF's leader and seven companies in the United Arab Emirates that are accused of supplying the RSF with money and weapons.
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NPR's West Africa correspondent Emmanuel Akunwotu has been reporting on the war for months. He explained the scale of the famine recently to NPR.
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Nathaniel Raymond is an executive director at Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab. He described to Akanwotu what this actually looked like in one camp called Zamzam, where famine was first declared.
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Watchdog organizations have said that tens of millions across the country are experiencing acute hunger. The death toll from the war is unknown, but U.S. officials have estimated that about 150,000 people have been killed. This declaration of genocide does not mean, however, that the U.S. is supporting the Sudanese military in the war. The U.N. also accuses their forces of committing war crimes.
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And some were quick to criticize the U.S. 's late response to the conflict. Cameron Hudson, a former American diplomat and Sudan expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said on social media, quote, This attempt to position the administration on the right side of history won't work. It's too late, and too many people have died for that to happen.
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Good morning. It's Wednesday, January 8th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamit Debasu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, how your social media feeds might change soon. The U.S. declares a genocide in Sudan. And two unlikely TV sitcoms are teaming up.
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The US has only declared a genocide six times before since the end of the Cold War, including in Bosnia in 1993 and Rwanda in 1994. And this comes two decades after the US declared a genocide in Darfur in 2004 that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. Before we let you go, a few other stories being featured in the Apple News app.
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A raging fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles forced residents to abandon their cars on the road and flee toward the ocean as homes were destroyed and smoke engulfed the area.
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That's Marsha Horowitz, a resident of the area, speaking to KCAL News as she fled on foot with her dog. Fueled by what officials called a life-threatening and destructive windstorm, more than 1,200 acres had burned as of Tuesday afternoon.
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Dramatic video from the scene showed whipping winds as flames consumed palm trees, and bulldozers had to be brought in to clear out deserted vehicles to make way for fire trucks. Forecasts predicted dry and strong winds in the next few days, which could make the situation worse. This is a fast-moving story, and you can follow along on the Apple News app for the latest updates.
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Meanwhile, rescue efforts continue in Tibet, where a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit a remote area in the foothills of the Himalayas on the Chinese-Nepal border near Mount Everest. Chinese state media said Tuesday that more than 100 people are dead, with many more injured. Temperatures in the area were expected to fall into the low single digits as the rescue operation was underway.
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During his first term, you might remember that Trump also floated the idea of buying Greenland. That was strongly rejected by Denmark. Greenland is a former colony of Denmark and became a formal territory of the kingdom in the 1950s. So Greenland is subject to the Danish constitution, and any changes to its legal status would require a constitutional amendment.
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Back in the U.S., a special service was held for former President Jimmy Carter in the Capitol, where a number of political figures from both parties eulogized his service to the country. Ceremonies continue into tomorrow when a national day of mourning will be observed. That means that institutions like the post office and federal courts will be closed, along with the stock market.
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Carter's national funeral is scheduled for tomorrow at Washington National Cathedral. And finally, you might have a favorite TV crossover event you remember, like when Steve Urkel showed up on Full House. Well, ABC's Abbott Elementary and FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are about to take part in that tradition with the first part of a crossover event tonight.
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Both shows are set in Philly and are beloved comedies, but with very different vibes. It's Always Sunny features a group of degenerate friends largely set in a dive bar, and Abbott Elementary humorously portrays teachers working in an underfunded public school. Here's Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson talking to Jimmy Kimmel about how all of this came together.
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The plot of the episode will find the Always Sunny gang at Abbott Elementary to perform community service. The Always Sunny episode will tell the rest of the story sometime later this year. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening to the news app right now, we have a narrated article coming up next from Rolling Stone.
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It pulls back the curtain on the beloved American game show Jeopardy!. It's evolved a lot since its debut in 1964, but kind of lost its way for a while after Alex Trebek's death. The show struggled to find a new host before eventually tapping former champion Ken Jennings. He told Rolling Stone about the show's recovery and what gives it its staying power.
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If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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So purchasing has never really been on the table.
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For Canadians, rising costs of living has been a major motivating factor. In fact, a recent poll from Ipsos found that 71% of Canadians said that was their top issue last year.
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For our American listeners, this story probably sounds familiar. In a 2024 election exit poll, nearly 7 in 10 voters said the U.S. economy was either not so good or poor. About 3 in 4 voters said that inflation had caused their family hardship, and they took that unhappiness out on the party in power.
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Now Canada is facing similar upheaval, and it comes as the nation is trying to figure out how to work with the incoming Trump administration. The relationship between our country and Canada is vital for both nations. We are each other's biggest trading partners and neighbors.
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But in recent months, Trump has lobbed insults at Canada, referring to it as our 51st state and suggesting that it should merge with the U.S. Now, that trolling aside, he's also promised to impose significant tariffs on all imports from Canada on day one. In fact, a major turning point for confidence in Trudeau's leadership came just before the holidays.
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A longtime ally, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, stepped down. She was set to lead Canada's response to the tariffs proposed by President-elect Trump. And she and Trudeau had disagreements about how to best respond to that threat.
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Trudeau will remain prime minister until his party selects a new leader. But their eventual pick will face Pierre Poliev, who's expected to win the next general election by a wide margin.
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Now to the U.S., where President Biden is making last-minute moves in the final days of his presidency. He recently signed a bill to expand Social Security benefits for millions of current and former public sector workers. And he's taken several steps to shore up his environmental legacy before President-elect Trump takes office.
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Today, Biden will dedicate two new national monuments in California to protect land that belongs to tribal nations. And yesterday, he announced a permanent ban on oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of federal waters. That includes part of the eastern seaboard, the Pacific coast, and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Trump quickly responded to the move on Monday, pledging to reverse Biden's order immediately.
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But reversing the ban will be easier said than done, as White House correspondent Kelly O'Donnell told NBC.
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That's because Biden relied on a law from 1953 to take this action. It's called the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and it allows presidents to withdraw federal waters from future oil and gas leasing. Trump himself had used the law in his first term to protect the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Here's O'Donnell again.
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At least one Republican senator said that Congress would try to reverse Biden's move in this next term. But it's unclear if they'll be able to do it. During Biden's term, domestic oil production reached an all-time high. But the White House says their administration has conserved more land and water than any other.
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Yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, stepping down as the leader of the Liberal Party after nearly a decade in power.
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Let's turn now to reporting from ProPublica on the homelessness crisis in America, which has reached record levels. According to the latest estimate from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, close to 800,000 people did not have housing in 2023. That number is nearly 20% more than the year before.
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At the same time, the Supreme Court recently allowed cities to take punitive action against people who don't have housing. For example, we've seen a number of local governments order sweeps of housing encampments, meaning that officials can take everything from tents and sleeping bags to people's journals, their pictures, and mementos.
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ProPublica spent the last year following some of these stories. Reporter Nicole Santa Cruz told us about a woman named Stephanie. She was living in Portland, Oregon, and lost everything in one of these sweeps.
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Stephanie begged city officials to at least return one item, her purse, which held her food stamps and cash. She was pregnant and needed the money to survive. Instead, they gave her a business card with a phone number to call to schedule a pickup. Some cities are supposed to store these items and make it simple for people to reclaim their possessions. But ProPublica found that rarely happens.
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In Portland, over the course of one year, only 4% of items were reclaimed. When Stephanie tried to call the number on that business card, no one answered at first. And when she eventually managed to reach someone and find the transportation to get to the warehouse where her belongings were stored, almost everything was gone, including her purse.
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ProPublica spoke to nearly 100 other people with similar stories. Only one managed to get all of their belongings back. And they all told Santa Cruz that losing everything is devastating.
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Good morning. It's Tuesday, January 7th. I'm Gideon Resnick, in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, Biden tests the limits of presidential power on a key issue. What happens after cities clear homelessness encampments? And more dangerous weather ahead for millions of Americans. But first, to the political crisis gripping America's neighbor to the north.
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Experts on homelessness told her that there is a more compassionate way to approach this issue.
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Before we let you go, a few other stories being featured in the Apple News app. Dangerous weather continues to impact a big swath of the country. Several people are dead and dozens more injured as heavy snow blanketed areas from Ohio to Washington, D.C. Thousands of cars were abandoned from Kansas to Virginia.
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Flights were delayed or canceled, and many in the storm's wake were without power on Monday. Forecasters say the snow will taper off, but colder temperatures are set to move in, which could cause further travel disruptions, school closures, and power outages. In legal news, the judge in President-elect Trump's hush money case denied a request to halt sentencing scheduled for this Friday.
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Trump was convicted on 34 counts for falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal in the run-up to the 2016 election. Trump's defense team argued that Judge Juan Merchan should halt the sentencing while he appeals an earlier ruling from Merchan that the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity does not apply to this case.
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And finally, the American rugby star Ilona Marr may have hung up her dancing shoes after this past season of Dancing with the Stars, but she's back on the rugby field. Marr made her overseas professional debut with England's Bristol Bears on Sunday, breaking an attendance record for the club. Demand was so high, in fact, that the team had to move to a bigger stadium to accommodate the crowd.
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Here she is talking to reporters after the match about her popularity and her hopes for the future of the sport.
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Trudeau entered office with a 63% approval rating, but today he has only around half of that support. He's faced mounting pressure in recent months to let someone new lead the party, which will face Canada's Conservative Party in a general election later this year.
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Now, despite a losing effort, the Bears reported a record 9,420 fans who showed up to see Maher's first match, more than double their previous record. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening to the news app right now, we have a narrated article coming up next from New York Magazine.
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Recreational use of nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas or whippets, has boomed in popularity in recent years, with companies even selling candy-flavored versions over the counter through a legal loophole. And this trend has medical experts deeply concerned. If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story.
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And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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Vox reporter Ellen Ionis told us that Trudeau's downfall is yet another example of a trend that we've seen in elections worldwide over the last year.
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According to a Pentagon report from a year ago, women made up roughly 20 percent of the U.S. military's active duty force and selected reserve in 2022. And outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently told NBC News how vital women are to our military.
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Dan Lamothe is a Washington Post reporter who covers the Pentagon. He told us how Hegseth's nomination is resonating with people who work there.
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While we've heard a lot of rhetoric from Trump and Hegseth about their goals, we know very little about the details so far. For example, what would it mean to end diversity programs in the military or to fire quote-unquote woke generals?
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Lamothe also told us there's a lot of concern about Trump's vows to go after the generals involved with the decision to leave Afghanistan and the chaotic withdrawal.
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There will be a lot to watch for, including how and if Trump follows through on his promise to use the military to conduct the biggest deportation program in U.S. history. For clarity on all these questions, The Washington Post reached out to Hegseth, but was not able to reach him for comment.
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Now to Springfield, Ohio, a community that was thrown into the national spotlight by President-elect Trump when he falsely claimed before millions of viewers at the presidential debate that Haitian immigrants living in the community were eating pets. The lie originally circulated online by far-right activists and even neo-Nazis. But when Trump repeated it, it went viral.
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Bomb threats to Springfield followed. State troopers had to escort kids to school.
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That's CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez, who's been to Springfield several times since Trump's comments, after the political world and many media outlets moved on. He told us the immediate reaction from Haitians in the community was confusion.
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There are an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 immigrants living in the county that contains Springfield. Many are believed to be Haitians who have arrived in the past four years fleeing deadly gang violence. Springfield was an attractive destination for some because it had available jobs and a low cost of living.
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Local officials acknowledged to CNN, yes, they could have had better infrastructure in place to accommodate the arrival of these immigrants and that the growing population has led to some growing pains. But the community had been trying to tackle problems collaboratively before false claims spread. And today, Jimenez says, many Haitians still don't feel safe in Springfield, so they're leaving.
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Trump has threatened to end temporary protection status, a provision that allows immigrants from countries like Haiti going through humanitarian emergencies to live and work here in the U.S. legally. And Jimenez says that Trump's mass deportation threat is another motivating factor.
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Trump has selected Pete Hegseth as his nominee for defense secretary. Hegseth is a veteran and most recently a Fox News host, but he doesn't have military leadership experience. In fact, NPR reports that if Hegseth is confirmed, he would be the least experienced defense secretary in American history.
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City officials told Jimenez that if Haitians leave Springfield in mass numbers by choice or not, it would hurt their community.
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We are exactly one week out from Thanksgiving, and as you prepare to whip up a feast for your loved ones, there are a few items in your kitchen you might want to seriously consider throwing out before that day. Namely, your black plastic spatula, spoons, and other similar utensils. That's because they were found in some cases to contain dangerous levels of flame retardants.
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That's according to a new study published in the journal Chemisphere, which found all sorts of black plastic items are more likely to contain dangerous levels of toxic chemicals because many are made from recycled electronic waste, like old TV sets and computers. And it's not just kitchen tools. The study looked at things like black plastic takeout containers and kids' toys as well.
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Good morning. It's Thursday, November 21st. I'm Gideon Resnick, in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, the kitchen item you should toss out immediately, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for top Israeli leaders, and the last episode for an iconic voice actor. But first, a look at how the military could change under President-elect Donald Trump.
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That's Jessica Roy, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who recently wrote about this.
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Now, before you rush to throw out all of the black plastic that might be in your home, a number of scientists who reviewed this study have called attention to the fact that it did not examine the extent to which these toxic chemicals are transferred to people when they put these products in their mouths or if that happens at all.
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Now, Roy told us she personally felt safer throwing all of her black plastic utensils away, especially since there's just no easy way to tell which items contain these toxic chemicals and which do not.
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And he would come into the role with some big criticisms of the military, characterizing it as ineffective, quote-unquote woke, and saying that some of the top brass should be fired. Here's Hegseth on the podcast The Sean Ryan Show, just before he was officially tapped to head up defense.
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Experts agree, including one of the authors of this study who told The Atlantic she no longer saves black takeout containers. And experts say even if you've had kitchen tools like these for years and might think, oh well, I've already been exposed, you should still consider buying alternatives. Roy suggested non-plastic materials like wood or silicone.
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Before we let you go, a few other stories being featured in the Apple News app. Early this morning, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
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The court accuses the two of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, alleging that Israel has used starvation as a weapon of war and has intentionally targeted civilian populations. Israel has strongly denied the allegations. The court also issued an arrest warrant for Mohamed Deif, Hamas's military chief. Israel said earlier this year that he had been killed.
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Neither Israel nor the United States recognized the court's jurisdiction. In entertainment news, the controversial film Rust premiered yesterday at a film festival. As you might remember, this is the movie where the actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on set that turned out to be loaded, killing cinematographer Helena Hutchins and wounding the director.
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The film's armorer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and is currently in prison. Baldwin was also charged, but the case against him was eventually dismissed. NPR spoke with the director, Joel Sousa, about why he wanted to complete the project.
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According to a source who spoke to NPR, the film's original producers will not gain financially from the movie. Instead, profits will go to Hutchins' husband and son. And finally, an iconic voice in comedy is retiring.
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Yes, that is Milhouse from The Simpsons. He will stick around, but Pamela Hayden, the voice of his beloved character and others on the show, is retiring after 35 years. Her voice has appeared in over 600 episodes, and her last one will be Sunday. Fox is gonna start casting a new voice for her characters, so we'll have to see who they hire to bring Bart's buddy to life next.
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You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already in the news app, we have a narrated article coming up next from The Atlantic about Lucy Calkins. Thousands of schools used her curriculum to teach kids to read and write, which put more emphasis on teaching them to love reading than going through exercises like phonics. But for many kids, it didn't work.
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And Calkins was ultimately blamed for the reading crisis in America. If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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Hegseth has also been critical of women serving in combat roles, saying that it's made our military less lethal and effective. Here he is again on The Sean Ryan Show.
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While scientists have not ruled out the notion that both genes and environmental factors can contribute to the development of autism, there is still no evidence it can be prevented. One longtime autism researcher told the New York Times, quote, autism is not an infectious disease, so there aren't preventive measures that we can take.
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It's also important to recognize that more people are aware of autism symptoms today than before, and our screening systems have vastly improved. Meaning more people may be seeking diagnoses than before, and we're better positioned to make diagnoses. In other words, the CDC says its findings don't necessarily mean that more people are autistic than before.
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Researchers also say that Kennedy declaring we'll have answers by September or any arbitrary date runs counter to how science works. Recently, many people who are skeptical of what mainstream scientists have to say about autism attended what's known as the Annual Autism Health Summit. The summit promotes treatments that are not proven to work, like water filters or fecal transplants.
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NBC News reporter Brandi Zadrosny told us about a pre-recorded video message from RFK Jr. that was played for attendees.
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Zadrozny says that RFK Jr. 's remarks were met with excitement and applause.
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But as the health publication Stat reports, the alleged connection between vaccines and autism has been thoroughly researched and debunked. Autism usually presents during childhood, which happens to be when routine immunizations are administered. Something that researchers say is a coincidental overlap, not a causal connection.
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But with Kennedy at the helm of health and human services, the anti-vax movement is now picking up renewed steam.
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The director of advocacy at the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network told NPR that while Kennedy Jr. makes comments like this, the administration is pursuing other policies and financial cuts that could impact autistic Americans on many fronts. Let's turn now to how a number of Democratic governors are responding and contending with the Trump administration.
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Governors have a different relationship with the presidency than members of Congress. Governors, like the president, hold an executive office. In fact, they have many of the same responsibilities as the president— signing legislation, appointing people to certain offices.
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Add the fact that different governors represent very different constituencies, and that some also have aspirations for running for president themselves, and you can understand why some Democratic governors have tried out different strategies with the Trump White House.
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Some are beginning to take a more confrontational approach, like in California, where Governor Gavin Newsom announced a lawsuit yesterday against the administration over its tariff policy. The state has filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the administration in all, but this is the first time that Newsom has taken the lead role in a suit.
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He and the state's attorney general say that Trump is exceeding his authority by invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to implement tariffs. And they argue Trump cannot unilaterally impose tariffs on U.S. imports without the consent of Congress.
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is making research into autism one of his major initiatives. But he's also making proclamations about the disorder that scientists who study autism say is in direct contradiction to the research.
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Newsom says the tariffs have already cost the state economy billions of dollars. Then there's Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat leading a state that Trump won. She said she understands Trump's motivation for tariffs and that she doesn't oppose them outright.
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But she's also criticized the administration's on-again, off-again approach to implementing tariffs and the uncertainty they've introduced to U.S. markets. And as Whitmer tells it, during a trip to the White House last week, she was thrust in front of the press corps for an impromptu photo op as Trump signed executive orders.
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And at one point, he once again falsely said that the 2020 election had been rigged. Photos showed Whitmer at times appearing visibly uncomfortable, and one particular New York Times photo of her shielding her face with blue folders got a lot of attention. She recently explained at the Detroit Economic Club what was going through her mind then.
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Whitmer's appearance attracted criticism from some Democrats who felt she was being too friendly with Trump. And at that same photo op, he praised her, telling reporters he thinks she's doing a, quote, excellent job. At least one Democratic governor has directly drawn the president's ire, though.
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That's Maine's Governor Janet Mills, whose state inclusion of transgender athletes Trump sees as a violation of his executive order banning transgender women and girls from women's sports. Trump called her out and even went so far as to threaten her during a bipartisan meeting of governors back in February.
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Good morning. It's Thursday, April 17th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamit Tabassu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, how a group of Democratic governors are navigating Trump's second term, the legal hurdles facing a U.S. hostage freed from Russia, and why Paris is breathing easier these days. But first, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Since then, the administration has threatened to cut funding to Maine's public schools and lunch programs. And yesterday, the Trump administration sued the state, alleging that it's violating Title IX anti-discrimination law.
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Meanwhile, Mills has said the president does not have the authority, through an executive order, to change Maine's human rights law, which prohibits discrimination based on gender identity. And in a statement yesterday, Mills said she believes this dispute boils down to states' rights. Or as she put it, quote, defending the rule of law against a federal government bent on imposing its will.
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Now to reporting from NPR that looks at the life of former Marine Paul Whelan and how government bureaucracy has disrupted his reintegration to American society. You might remember that he was released from Russia about a year ago in a prisoner exchange coordinated by the Biden administration.
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But now that Whelan's back home in Michigan, he told NPR he's struggling to get access to basic services he needs to reenter society.
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Scientists say genetic factors play a critical role in whether a child will develop autism, though they acknowledge that not every case can be explained by genetics alone. Kennedy says that the HHS will launch a new series of studies to look at whether autism can possibly be connected to things like mold, pesticides, as well as certain medications and even food. And he's promised to move quickly.
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Whelan's conviction in Russia, where he was accused of spying on what the U.S. has called bogus charges, is the reason he's experiencing so many problems at home now. He was detained for five years and seven months, beginning in December of 2018.
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And when he got back to the U.S., Whelan told NPR the laws that govern how unemployment benefits are awarded meant that he technically did not qualify because he hadn't recently worked in the state of Michigan. He couldn't renew his global entry card with Customs and Border Patrol either.
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To get an ID and a driver's license, a member of Congress had to intervene and reach out to Michigan's secretary of state. And Whelan told NPR that he's also faced major problems getting access to Medicaid.
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That shouldn't have been an issue. In 2020, Congress passed a law to guarantee U.S. hostages and their families receive medical care and assistance for five years after their release. But then Congress never appropriated funding for it. Representative Haley Stevens, a Democrat, told NPR it's, quote, unacceptable that lawmakers haven't secured that funding yet.
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But Whelan tells NPR despite the lack of government support he's received since getting home, there have been some bright spots. His community has rallied around him. Car dealers have offered leased vehicles. Private practitioners have offered medical support. Still, he says what he's experienced since coming home has felt very isolating.
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And Whelan tells NPR one of his biggest goals as a free man is to help improve how the government supports former hostages deal with the aftermath of what is for many the darkest chapter of their life. Before we let you go, a few other stories we're following.
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A federal district judge says there is probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for violating the court's orders. Judge James Boasberg last month barred the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador.
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Boasberg is the first judge to reach this point with the administration, one that has repeatedly tested how far it can go against judicial orders. As for the next step, Judge Boasberg has asked for sworn statements from those involved in the case, which ultimately could result in the prosecution of administration officials.
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In economic news, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the central bank's best move for now is to stand pat as it waits to see how the U.S. economy responds to President Trump's tariff policy. For now, the economy is in good shape, according to recent data.
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But CNN reports that economists say it's only a matter of time before Trump's moves push up inflation and unemployment and weaken economic growth, especially if delayed tariffs are put back into place. Powell characterized the tariffs as unprecedented in modern history. And finally, Parisians can take a breath of fresh air. Literally.
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Air pollution in the City of Lights is down 50% after cars were banned from more than 100 streets as part of the city's massive shift away from cars. The city also eliminated tens of thousands of parking spaces and added hundreds of miles of bike lanes.
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When Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014, she fought to speed up the city's push for more sustainable transportation, as Paris' air quality had exceeded EU health limits regularly. As a result of the city's efforts, commutes have changed drastically. The use of bike paths doubled during rush hour between 2022 and 2023, and on some roads, cars were even outnumbered by bicycles.
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You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we have a narrated article coming up next. The Wall Street Journal has the story of a secretive gambling ring that conned the Texas lottery and took home a jackpot of nearly $60 million.
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Kennedy made those comments at a press conference yesterday. That followed a new study released this week from the CDC, an agency that falls under HHS, that concluded that among 8-year-olds, 1 in 31 were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2022. In 2020, that figure was 1 in 36.
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Lots of people have lost power at some point, and there are air quality advisories in effect, with many saying it's hard and even dangerous to breathe. The LA Times warns that the tiny particulate matter in the air can travel deep into the lungs and bloodstream.
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The LA County Fire Chief, Anthony Maroney, said at a press briefing yesterday evening that firefighters and resources from other states, including Arizona, Oregon, and Washington, had arrived to help fight the fires. And the Pentagon has offered aid as well. L.A.
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City Fire Chief Kristen Crowley said at the same briefing that citizens should stay informed through trusted channels and that people living near wildland areas need to be prepared to follow all evacuation orders as soon as they are given.
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All Los Angeles Unified schools are closed today, and officials say two elementary schools that serve more than 700 students in the Pacific Palisades area were completely destroyed. And there's a reason that the fires got so bad so fast. There's been an unprecedented windstorm, with gusts reportedly reaching up to 100 miles per hour. Embers can travel for miles on a gust of wind.
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California is also in the middle of an unusual winter drought. This is typically the rainiest season. But according to the LA Times, the last time the city received more than a tenth of an inch of rain was last May. Here's Newsom again, speaking with CNN.
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Firefighters have struggled to contain the blazes because fire hydrants in the area are reportedly running dry or have weak water pressure. Fire officials say they were drawing water faster than tanks could be refilled. Here's L.A. County Fire Department Battalion Chief Brenda Simonian, who spoke with KCAL while she and her team tried to extinguish flames that were tearing through a senior center.
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In addition to the human toll, the economic impact on Los Angeles is expected to be massive. Insurers were already pulling out of California in recent years because of the high risks of natural disasters like these fires. And this disaster could create an even bigger strain. Homes in the Pacific Palisades are worth on average $3.5 million.
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And preliminary estimates put the total cost of damage of all the fires at $10 billion. Officials say winds should die down today, which could provide some respite for firefighters. But because conditions are so dry, even moderate winds can still be dangerous. This is a rapidly moving story. You can follow the latest in the Apple News app.
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But first, to the devastating scenes in Los Angeles, where multiple uncontrolled wildfires have destroyed homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate.
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We're going to include a link in our show notes to an article with a list of organizations working on the ground to help. The state funeral service for President Jimmy Carter is today in Washington, after which the former president will be transported to his beloved hometown of Plains, Georgia, to be laid to rest next to his wife, Rosalyn.
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As the nation reflects on his legacy, there's one word you'll hear often, honesty. It was the cornerstone of Carter's commitment to the American people when he took office.
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Mark Fisher recently wrote about Carter's legacy with honesty for the Washington Post. And he spoke to historians who say that Carter largely delivered on his promise to never tell a lie.
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In fact, Fisher writes that Carter's commitment to honesty may have also been his downfall, as he dealt with everything from the Iran hostage crisis to rampant inflation and high gas prices.
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Which is why politics is so complicated. In polls, Americans consistently say they want their politicians to tell the truth. In fact, in a poll last summer by YouGov, a research group, Americans said that honesty was one of the top three qualities they care about most in a president.
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There's no better proof of that than the election of Donald Trump. The Washington Post ran the numbers, and in his first term, Trump said things that weren't true more than 30,000 times. That's an average of 21 false statements a day. Still, that didn't seem decisive in how voters made their choice in this election.
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And because Trump has found that his style works with American voters, that is starting at some level to become normalized in our politics.
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Fundamentally, Fisher told us, he thinks we're in a moment where Americans' trust in just about everything, from politics to institutions, is being redefined.
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Good morning. It's Thursday, January 9th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, the legacy of Jimmy Carter's promise to never tell a lie, the two coaches who are making college football history, and the Today Show prepares to say goodbye to Hoda Kotb.
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Now to college football, where Penn State and Notre Dame will make history before they even step on the field tonight in the Orange Bowl. And it's because of their coaches, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame and James Franklin at Penn State.
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That's Rachel Bachman, a senior sports reporter with The Wall Street Journal. She told us about one big reason that we've never seen a Black coach win a national title in the history of college football.
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There are at least five major fires burning. The first and biggest broke out in Pacific Palisades, followed by others near Altadena, the San Fernando Valley, and the Hollywood Hills. And authorities have said these are among the most destructive fires to ever hit Los Angeles. CNN spoke with Governor Gavin Newsom, who said their resources were maxed out quickly as these fires multiplied.
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College football has been around for over a century now. But we didn't see a Black coach lead a school from one of the five major conferences until 1981, when Northwestern University hired Dennis Green. Over the last decade, the number of Black head coaches of major college football programs has remained pretty stagnant, holding steady at 12%.
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But in recent years, we've seen a surge in hiring at the position level. In 2009, around 38% of position specialist coaches were Black. By 2022, that number jumped to 57%.
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Bachman told us that Freeman, the coach at Notre Dame, and Franklin, the coach at Penn State, both understand just how big the stakes are in tonight's game, not only for their teams, but for all of the Black coaches inspired to follow in their footsteps. Yesterday, they were asked about this at a press conference. Here's Franklin.
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Whoever comes out on top will face the winner of Friday's Cotton Bowl, either the University of Texas or Ohio State, later this month in the national championship. Before we let you go, here are a few other stories we're following today.
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The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that it plans to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on President-elect Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Though a separate part of the report pertaining to Trump's alleged retainment of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago will not be publicly released at this time.
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After Trump won this election, federal charges on both of those cases were dropped. Chances are that someone you know is sick right now with COVID, the flu, or a particularly nasty outbreak of norovirus going around. That's the viral stomach bug typically accompanied by vomiting, GI distress, fever, and body aches.
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And according to the CDC, norovirus cases are way up compared to this time last year. Vox has some tips on how you and your family can stay healthy. One thing to know is it takes very little exposure to get sick, so keep those surfaces clean. And this one might be obvious, but wash your hands.
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Alcohol-based sanitizers don't really do a great job of killing norovirus, so you'll want to stick with soap and water. And finally, for 17 years, Hoda Kotb has greeted Americans every morning on The Today Show. She's been one of the nation's most beloved hosts and media personalities. And tomorrow, she steps down from her role to spend more time with her young daughters.
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She spoke with Jimmy Fallon about why she made this decision a few months ago.
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Craig Melvin, another Today anchor, will replace her. And as for Kotb, she'll finally be able to turn off that 3 a.m. alarm that she's been using for years. Though with two young kids, getting more sleep might still be a challenge. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we have a narrated article coming up next.
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Bloomberg Businessweek examines the popularity of Zin and concerns the nicotine pouches are hooking young people. If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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Officials have reported at least five fatalities, but that's expected to climb as search and rescue efforts continue. Thousands of homes and buildings have burned. Authorities also say there are a high number of injuries to people who chose not to evacuate.
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I own up to that. Another allegation of bad behavior came from his mother. Last Friday, the New York Times reported that Hegseth's mother had sent her son an email in 2018 accusing him of mistreating women. At the time, Hegseth was going through a divorce. His mom's email reads, quote, I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, and sleeps around.
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Yesterday, she appeared on Fox News to clear up those comments.
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Then, this week, Jane Mayer, chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, reported that Hegseth was forced out of previous leadership positions for, quote, financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job. The allegations are based on a whistleblower report and other internal emails. Here's Mayer on CNN.
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Mayer also described one incident that took a dark turn.
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Mayer's reporting also found that Hegseth had run up massive debt while he was the head of the organization Veterans for Freedom, to the point where he was unable to pay its bills. A lawyer for Hegseth called the allegations outlandish and attributed them to, quote, a petty and jealous disgruntled former associate of Hegseth's.
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Since all of this, Hegseth has been meeting with senators to try to shore up support. He's told at least one that he wouldn't drink if he were confirmed for the role. But there are mounting concerns. Here's Senator Lindsey Graham on CBS News earlier this week.
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But other Republicans are standing firmly behind Hegseth, like Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.
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Republicans will have a 53-47 majority in the Senate next year, which means Hegseth can afford to lose no more than three Republican senators to be confirmed. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump is already considering backup options, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Let's turn now to the political turmoil that's erupted this week in South Korea.
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It started when President Yoon Suk-yool declared martial law after accusing the opposition party of engaging in anti-state activities. That decision was met with swift backlash, leading Yoon to lift the martial law declaration just six hours later. Now he faces the threat of impeachment.
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The quickly moving events are being described as the biggest political crisis that South Korea has faced in decades.
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But first, Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill yesterday amid a storm of controversy. A number of damaging stories have emerged since he was selected for the role, leading to concerns from some Republican senators and questions about his future.
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That's Karen DeYoung, a senior national security correspondent at The Washington Post. She says the events also took the U.S. by surprise.
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South Korea is one of America's closest allies. In fact, one of President Biden's signature foreign policy achievements is engaging the United States in a security pact with South Korea and Japan in the face of mounting threats from Russia, China and North Korea.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kirk Campbell told reporters that the U.S. was watching the unfolding events with, quote, grave concern. Now South Korean lawmakers say they'll hold a vote to impeach President Yoon on Saturday. At the same time, American leadership is on the cusp of changing as well.
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There are growing efforts across the world to limit how much time young people spend on their phones. Recently, Australia approved a new law that would ban kids from accessing social media platforms until they're 16 years old. It's expected to go into effect in a year.
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And there are not a lot of details about how the ban would be enforced, but social media companies could face fines of up to $32 million if they don't comply. Meanwhile, in Spain, lawmakers there are considering a recommendation that smartphones carry warning labels. And here in the United States, our Surgeon General has recommended something similar for social media platforms.
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Good morning. It's Thursday, December 5th. I'm Gideon Resnick in Versamita, Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, explaining the political turmoil in South Korea, one country's sweeping plan to stop kids from using social media, and the final House race of the 2024 election has been called.
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At the same time, lots of states and locales are starting to take matters into their own hands. Multiple school districts, including in Los Angeles, are banning phone use at school. And next year, children in Florida who are under 14 will not be permitted to have social media accounts.
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Trump's team has publicly defended him, and Hegseth said that Trump told him that he had his support. Let's recap how we got to this moment. The first allegation came from a woman who said Hegseth sexually assaulted her in a hotel in Monterey, California, seven years ago.
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That's Mitch Prinstein, chief science officer at the American Psychological Association, who spoke to us a few months back for an episode of Apple News In Conversation.
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In his professional opinion, the right way to approach the issue is to treat social media like any other potentially dangerous behavior and to teach kids how to use it the right way.
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NPR recently spoke to a bunch of teachers about this issue. One in Arizona who taught high school biology said that he recently quit after 11 years, saying that phone use in the class was taking a toll on him. And one English teacher in Minnesota said that after she banned phones in her classroom, students were participating and socializing way more.
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Before we let you go, a few other stories being featured in the Apple News app. We're starting to learn more details about the death of Brian Thompson, an executive with UnitedHealthcare who was shot and killed Wednesday morning as he was heading to the company's annual investor conference in midtown Manhattan. A gunman fired multiple rounds before fleeing into Central Park.
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She said she doesn't remember much, but remembers saying no, and alleges that Hegseth prevented her from leaving his hotel room. That's all according to a police report that was filed at the time. Hegseth was never charged, but he did pay the woman a settlement and maintains it was consensual. Yesterday, he was asked about the incident on The Megyn Kelly Show.
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Here's the NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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Police officers don't have a motive for the shooting yet, and they've yet to find the suspect. In political news, the final House race in the 2024 election has been called. Democrats flipped California's 13th district, with Adam Gray eking out the slimmest of victories, beating his Republican opponent by just 187 votes.
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Now, with all of the races called, we finally know the balance of power in next year's House of Representatives. Republicans will hold 220 seats and Democrats will hold 215. And that majority will get even narrower for at least parts of January, as Trump has picked several Republican House members to fill Cabinet positions.
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And finally, tis the season of holiday music you can't get out of your head. Tunes often referred to as earworms. According to one study, 90% of people say they experience the earworm phenomenon once a week. If this is you, NPR reports on a new tool created to help you get rid of those pesky repeating tunes.
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It's called the Earworm Eraser, a 40-second audio track designed specifically to help you forget a song by switching beats, musical styles, and tempo every few seconds. Here's a bit of what it sounds like. A lot of people on YouTube have said the song does in fact do the trick, while others say not so much.
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So the next time that you're at the grocery store and you get All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey stuck in your head, you can go ahead and try it out yourself. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we have Shamita's interview about limiting social media use queued up to play next.
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And there are now more security measures in place. Still, some of those on the front lines of the attack in 2021 remain haunted by that day. NPR visited with the family of Brian Sicknick. He was a Capitol Police officer who was sprayed with a chemical substance as he defended the building from rioters. Sicknick died of multiple strokes the following day.
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Sicknick's father told NPR that the conspiracy theories that followed the day's events have led him to distance himself from others.
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Sicknick's mother told NPR she's worried Trump may pardon the people who were convicted of crimes on January 6th.
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The president-elect has not specified who of the more than 1,500 charged in the attack may end up getting pardons. But he has said that he might issue them as soon as his first day in office. Let's turn our focus now from the upcoming president to the legacy of a former one. All of this week, Americans are honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100.
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Over the weekend, his body was transferred from his hometown of Plains, Georgia, to Atlanta, where he will lie in repose at the Carter Presidential Center until Tuesday. From there, Carter will be transferred to Washington, D.C., to Lyon State, and a national funeral service will be held on Thursday.
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At a service this past Saturday, Carter's son Chip Carter spoke about working on his father's peanut farm as a young boy, where he learned the value of hard work. And he praised both of his parents for the sacrifices they made for their family and the country.
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Over the past few days, there have been many remembrances of Carter's time as president. He accomplished historic things like negotiating the Camp David Accords and brokering the return of the Panama Canal to Panama. But he also lost public support as the country struggled with inflation, high gas prices, and the threat of a recession.
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And he faced severe criticism for his handling of the Iran hostage crisis. But perhaps Carter's biggest legacy will be what he did after the presidency, particularly with the Carter Center, which he and his wife Rosalind founded. Here's Carter's grandson, Jason Carter, thanking the people who work at the Carter Center this past weekend.
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CNN has a roundup of just how impactful the Carter Center has been. It's observed more than 100 elections in dozens of countries and worked to end tropical diseases. One of Carter's biggest life goals was to eradicate Guinea worm.
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He made it a top mission for his organization and traveled to Africa more than 40 times after his presidency to work with public health leaders, politicians, and donors to lobby people to this cause. When the Carter Center began this work in 1986, guinea worm disease infected 3.5 million people. By 2022, there were just 13 cases reported in the world.
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In 2002, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts. Here he is accepting that award.
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As for how he wants to be remembered, here's what Carter told CBS News in 2018.
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Despite a snowstorm that's closed federal offices in D.C., Congress will still meet. And USA Today reports that the certification process is expected to go smoothly, with no reports of threats to the process. But just four years ago, it was a very different story. That is the sound of Trump supporters attacking the U.S.
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Good morning. It's Monday, January 6th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shemitah Basu. Hope you had a great holiday season. This is Apple News Today. Coming up on today's show, remembering Jimmy Carter, a new warning about alcohol, and how to prepare for the cross-country winter storm. But first, today Congress will formally certify Donald Trump's presidential election victory.
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It's that time of year again when people in your life might be embarking on dry January. And this year, there might be even more good reason to abstain from alcohol.
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Last week, Murthy issued an advisory noting that alcohol, which is classified as a carcinogen, contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths every year, and called for more awareness about the links to cancer, particularly female breast cancer.
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Now, currently, there are health warnings on alcohol bottles, but they warn of the risks of drinking while pregnant and while driving. And that warning has not changed since its inception in 1988. Murthy says it's time for updates, given how much more we know now about alcohol and its effects on our health. But updating those warning labels isn't easy. It would require an act of Congress.
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It's unclear how the next administration or the next Congress would react to this proposal. Statt explains that President-elect Donald Trump seems to have mixed feelings on the issue. On the one hand, he personally does not drink because his brother died of alcohol use disorder.
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And his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also gave up alcohol decades ago. But in his last term, Trump cut alcohol taxes, a win for the industry. If the U.S. did include a cancer warning label, they would join only a small group of countries doing the same, including South Korea and Ireland.
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Before we let you go, a few other stories being featured in the Apple News app. Dangerous weather is sweeping across the nation over the next few days as winter storms wreak havoc on travel and everyday life. 70 million people are under severe weather alerts with another 4 million under blizzard warnings. Multiple states have declared states of emergency.
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The National Weather Service has a handy guide on how to prepare if your area is affected. They say to be sure you have a flashlight, batteries, a generator, fuel, and a weather radio to receive updates in case your area loses power, heat, or phone service. And if you have a pet, be sure to bring them inside and stock up on extra pet food.
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Another big tip, be aware that alternate heating sources like generators can lead to greater levels of carbon monoxide poisoning. Be sure you have working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and keep generators at least 20 feet from your home. And finally, if you do have to be outside, bundle up. Temperatures are expected to drop 10 to 30 degrees below average across the central and eastern U.S.
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And you can get frostbite from being outside with exposed skin in just 10 minutes. Now to new developments in the terror attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day that killed 14 people. The FBI says the suspected driver of a truck that plowed into a crowd of people had visited the French Quarter two times before to stake out the area.
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Capitol on January 6, 2021, as they tried to stop the certification of that presidential election. One protester was shot and killed. About 140 police officers were injured in what the Justice Department has called possibly the largest single-day mass assault of law enforcement in American history. Today's certification is expected to be without incident.
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The suspect also used a pair of Meta smart glasses to record where the attack took place. Shamsud Dinjabar, a 42-year-old Texas native, allegedly also planted a series of IED, or improvised explosive devices, around the area, but officials said Sunday they had failed to go off. In a recorded video before the attack, Jabbar, an army veteran, said that he had joined the terrorist group ISIS.
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He's believed to have acted alone. And finally, last night was Hollywood's first major award show of the year, the Golden Globes, which honors both movies and television. Comedian Nikki Glaser hosted the event, becoming the first woman to solo host the awards. Here's how she opened her monologue.
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Big winners of the night included the FX television series Shogun, which took home awards for Best Male Actor, Best Female Actor, Best Supporting Male Actor, and Best TV Drama. The LA Times reports it's the most expensive production in FX history. And the HBO show Hacks was named Best Series on the comedy side.
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As for movies, The Brutalist won for Best Motion Picture Drama, and Amelia Perez won Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we have a narrated article that's coming up next.
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Bloomberg Businessweek has a sweeping investigation into the global fertility industry and how women around the world are often taken advantage of. If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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No one is publicly contesting the results, for one. And after the riot four years ago, Congress passed an updated version of what is called the Electoral Reform Act. It makes it clear that the vice president, in this case Kamala Harris, does not have any power to determine the results of certification. It also makes it more difficult for a member of Congress to make an impactful objection.
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Experts warn the auto industry could take among the hardest hits. Canada produces more than 3,000 cars a day, 90% of which go to Americans. NBC News spoke with one worker at an automotive shop in New Jersey, who said that more expensive car parts inevitably means more expensive servicing of cars as well.
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And that's the key to understand about tariffs. They are a tax, first paid by American companies who import the products, but then passed on to the consumer. Kirsten Hillman, Canada's ambassador to the United States, told ABC News' Face the Nation that the tariffs are perplexing for Canadians.
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Tariffs on Canada and Mexico go against the terms of the North American trade agreement that Trump signed in 2020. Now, Trump says the reason for the tariffs is because Canada and Mexico haven't done enough to curb the flow of fentanyl or migrants to the U.S. NPR fact-checked some of these claims and found that less than 1% of the fentanyl that makes its way into the U.S. comes from Canada.
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As for Mexico, Trump suggested the Mexican government is complicit in working with cartels to get illegal drugs into the country. Lots of fact-checkers have rejected that claim. Here's how ABC News' Matt Rivers put it.
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And according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the amount of fentanyl making its way into the country from the southern border is way down. That is thanks in part to increased cooperation with Mexico under its new president, Claudia Scheinbaum. So what will this all mean for you and your wallet? USA Today has a good breakdown of costs you could expect to go up.
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From Canada, it could be everything from aluminum to cotton, cereal, and milk products. From Mexico, if tariffs do get enacted in the future, it could impact what you spend on tomatoes, coffee, tea, avocados, and tequila. And the Home Builders Association is warning that higher lumber costs will likely lead to higher home prices.
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A potential trade war has also rattled Wall Street, with some investors worried that it could lead to inflation and slow U.S. growth. Like we just saw with Mexico, it seems like Trump is willing to reconsider tariffs if he's given the right kind of concessions. And he said this is just the start. He intends to put tariffs on chips, pharmaceuticals, oil, gas, steel, aluminum, and copper soon.
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Family members of those who died in the crash between an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army Blackhawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., gathered yesterday at the crash site as bodies were still being recovered. Many are demanding answers as to how the crash occurred. So far, here's what we know.
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The National Transportation Safety Board says the American Airlines flight was flying at about 325 feet, and they believe the military helicopter was flying above the maximum 200 feet for its flight path. They were also investigating whether the helicopter crew were wearing their night vision equipment. Over the weekend, both black boxes were recovered.
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And the incident is renewing questions about whether the D.C. area space is too crowded. Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident in Philadelphia on Friday, a medical jet carrying a young patient crashed in a neighborhood about 30 seconds after takeoff. Everyone on that plane died. Another person on the ground was also killed, and several more were injured.
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But first, the Trump administration says it's hitting pause on sweeping tariffs on Mexico for a month while the two countries negotiate an agreement on security and trade.
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And yesterday, a crucial communication system that is used to alert pilots, crews, and others working in airspace of safety issues experienced an outage that prompted federal authorities to issue delay warnings. That same system went down in January of 2023, leading to the first nationwide ground stoppage in the U.S. since 2001.
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That incident disrupted more than 11,000 flights, according to Reuters. So it's been a nerve-wracking time for the aviation industry and has left many to wonder, is it safe to fly right now?
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Zach Wichter is an aviation reporter for USA Today. He told us the last time a commercial airliner in the U.S. crashed causing the death of passengers was in 2009.
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Wichter says because of that very track record, seeing these isolated incidents makes us question if something is going on.
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Wichter reports there are a number of reasons why flying is so safe, and will likely remain that way. Chief among them is that the aviation industry is very good at learning from error and improving. The NTSB leads all investigations in the U.S., and it even participates in investigations for accidents that happen abroad, and they take all safety recommendations very seriously.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on X that she had a, quote, good conversation with President Trump and is committed to having 10,000 National Guard troops at the border to block the flow of drugs like fentanyl into the U.S.,
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The DC crash was just days into Trump's presidency, and amid his efforts to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. The AP reports that one day before the crash, employees at the Federal Aviation Administration were sent an offer to resign with eight months' pay. Air traffic controllers were not eligible, according to the Office for Personnel Management.
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Also at the time of the crash, the FAA didn't have a permanent head. The previous one, Mike Whitaker, resigned on Trump's first day in office after a dispute with Elon Musk over approvals for SpaceX missions. A new acting FAA administrator has since been appointed. We asked Victor how much he thinks the administration holds any responsibility for what happened.
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Good morning. It's Monday, February 3rd. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, the latest on last week's plane crash. Democrats pick a new leader and Beyonce finally wins album of the year.
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The Democratic Party is still assessing what exactly went wrong for them in the 2024 election and how to proceed from here. Over the weekend, the party selected a new chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin. He has been the longtime leader of the state party in Minnesota, where Republicans have not won a statewide race since Martin took over 14 years ago.
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In his victory speech, Martin positioned Democrats as the defenders of working class people and a contrast to the Trump administration.
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This is a last-hour change to what was gearing up to be a major trade war, with Trump threatening 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and a 10% tariff on goods coming from China. As of now, tomorrow's tariff deadline still stands for Canada and China, and leaders there have said they plan to retaliate.
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A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 57% of survey responders had an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. That's the highest level of dissatisfaction since they started asking that question in 2008. Martin's election and the race leading up to it was not defined by an ideological battle like the one that took place in the 2017 DNC race.
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That's the last time the party was figuring out what to do when Trump won. Instead, Semaphore senior political reporter David Weigel says this race was more existential.
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One part of that answer, according to the Democrats that Weigel spoke with, is messaging.
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The new DNC chair, Ken Martin, says that he'll kick off a review process to fully assess how the party has gotten things so wrong. And he'll make sure the party has the resources it needs to ensure Democrats win in upcoming elections. One of the party's first tests will be in statewide and national races in the 2026 midterms. And after that, the 2028 primary.
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Martin has promised a transparent process in his role overseeing it. Before we let you go, a few other stories we're following. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is butting heads against some major U.S. departments and agencies. First at the Treasury Department, after Musk's team was given access to a system that disperses $6 trillion in payments every year.
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That money goes to everything from Social Security and Medicare to salaries for federal personnel and tax refunds. The decision to grant Musk's team access to the system prompted a standoff between him and a 30-year Treasury veteran, who ultimately retired as a result of the move.
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Musk claimed that his team was shutting down payments to federal contractors, but the Treasury Department did not clarify his level of access. Then, the Trump administration removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, also known as USAID, after they initially refused to let Musk's team access their systems.
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CNN reports that people from Musk's office physically tried to access the USAID headquarters and threatened to call the U.S. Marshals. They were eventually let in. After reports of the encounter, Musk called USAID a criminal organization and said, quote, "...time for it to die." The Washington Post describes USAID as the world's largest provider of food assistance.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau published a detailed list of American goods that his country plans to tariff, specifically items from Republican-led states, taxing everything from Tennessee's whiskey to Florida's oranges and Kentucky's peanut butter. And some places say they'll no longer buy American beer and liquor.
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Now to a big story shaking the sports world. The Los Angeles Lakers acquired Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic in what has been described as the most stunning trade in NBA history, and the topic of every text message I received yesterday. In return, the Lakers are sending superstar center Anthony Davis to Dallas with a handful of other players.
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Reports say that LeBron James, who is highly influential not only in the Lakers' locker room, but also the front office, was not aware of the trade, and neither were Davis or Doncic.
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Questions have swirled as to why the Mavericks would trade Doncic, who is 25, a five-time NBA All-Star and considered to be just now entering his prime, for a player like Davis, who is 31, with a long history of injuries. Dallas' GM said that a defensive center would help them win now and in the future.
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And finally, last night's Grammys doubled as a fundraiser for Los Angeles fire victims, just one day after the Eaton and Palisades fires were declared 100% contained. Tributes to victims were woven throughout the night. Los Angeles firefighters walked the red carpet and were the night's final presenters.
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Some of the night's biggest winners included Chapel Roan, who won Best New Artist, Dochi, who became only the third woman to ever win Best Rap Album, and Kendrick Lamar, who won for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. They then announced Album of the Year, music's biggest award that went to Beyonce for Cowboy Carter. Beyonce has never won in this category until last night.
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She also became the first Black artist to win Best Country Music Album. Beyonce now has 35 Grammys, the most of any artist. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you are already listening in the news app right now, we have a narrated article coming up next. Texas Monthly has the story of how an oil tycoon and powerful cartel allegedly plotted to raise gas prices.
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Prime Minister Trudeau spoke directly to the American people over the weekend, saying tariffs on his country's goods will hurt American consumers.
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Bass is also being criticized for reported cuts to the city's fire department budget. There's been a lot of confusion about this and criticism from the left and the right, so it's worth taking a moment to clear it up. It is true that in June, Bass signed a budget that cut the fire department's funding by more than $17.5 million, or around 2% of the previous year's budget.
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But Politico notes that's only a part of the story. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department, and a separate fund was set aside that ended up adding $50 million to the fire department budget year over year. Still, fire officials say they're understaffed and under-resourced.
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One of Bass' most outspoken critics is real estate developer Rick Caruso, who ran against her in the 2022 mayoral election. His daughter lost her home in the wildfires, and he's been blasting Bass and the city for the lack of available water. Here he is on the local Fox affiliate earlier in the week.
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But the L.A. Department of Water and Power says that isn't quite right. At issue wasn't supply, but strain on the system that feeds hydrants. Here's Kevin Tidmarsh, a reporter with LAist.
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Water to those hydrants is supplied by massive tanks that hold a million gallons each and are designed to maintain pressure as water is pumped up hills. The water department says the tanks and palisades were filled to capacity, but as firefighters drew more and more water while the flames spread, the system just couldn't hold. Here's Tidmarsh again.
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Another factor at play are the high winds, which have forced firefighters to battle these blazes almost exclusively from the ground while getting very little aerial support. Greg Pierce, the director of the UCLA Water Resources Group, told Tidmarsh a lot of this was to be expected and that any government would be taken by surprise with a disaster of this magnitude.
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, he added, is one of the most prepared and efficient in the country, and the department achieves that regardless of who is in charge. Despite all the finger-pointing among politicians, Tidmarsh told us that on the ground in Los Angeles, people are coming together to support each other. Let's turn now to a big legal development.
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The Supreme Court declined to delay President-elect Trump's sentencing in the New York hush money case. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced this morning. It comes after a jury convicted him of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 election.
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The judge in the case says he will not give Trump jail or probation. Still, this will cement his status as the first felon to occupy the White House. The sentencing takes place early this morning, so check the Apple News app for more updates. Also today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the government's efforts to force a sale of TikTok to an approved buyer by January 19th.
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The social media app used by over 100 million Americans is owned by the China-based company ByteDance. And for a long time, U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns that the Chinese government could secretly force ByteDance to share sensitive American user data or use the app to surveil and manipulate Americans, all of which TikTok claims has never happened.
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At the heart of the legal case before the court today are two longstanding principles that Vox's Ian Millhiser told us are now on a collision course.
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The First Amendment prohibits the government from deciding who owns media companies and who controls political communication in the U.S. At the same time, the federal government also has a long history of blocking foreign nations from U.S. communications. A lower court judge who upheld the recently passed law that led to this ultimatum for TikTok to sell or be banned cited the 1912 Radio Act.
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Good morning. It's Friday, January 10th. I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, TikTok goes to the Supreme Court, Trump is set to be sentenced in his hush money case, and why canceling student debt is a tricky issue. But first, to the L.A. fires, where more than 9,000 homes and structures have now been destroyed or damaged.
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And at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders. The Los Angeles County Sheriff said that some areas look like a bomb had been dropped on them. Yesterday, President Biden addressed the nation, and he said the federal government would cover 100% of the costs for the initial disaster response.
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That allowed only U.S. citizens or companies to obtain a radio operator's license. It was later repealed and replaced, but the general principle is still a part of US law today.
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TikTok, meanwhile, is expected to call on the court to remember that time and again, they have ruled under the First Amendment that the government cannot dictate what is published by media companies or how those decisions are made. But the Justice Department, the defendant in this case, argues that a foreign company like ByteDance has no First Amendment rights to begin with.
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With the January 19th deadline for TikTok looming, the Supreme Court will be on the clock to make a decision quickly. TikTok said it plans to shut down the site in the United States by that date, unless there is action from the court. But they could still see a last-minute lifeline thrown their way.
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A group created by the billionaire former owner of the LA Dodgers, Frank McCourt, said they made an offer to buy TikTok from ByteDance. According to CNN, the group, including Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, did not disclose the value of said offer. you 45 million Americans, or about one in six adults, have student loan debt. The total debt bill comes in around $1.7 trillion.
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It's so high that it's the second highest source of consumer debt surpassed only by home mortgages. And it's become a hotly contested political issue in recent years. Democrats and President Biden say at least some of this debt should be forgiven. His administration has canceled nearly $175 billion in student debt for roughly 4.8 million borrowers.
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Republicans, by and large, disagree, and they say debt is a matter of personal responsibility, and that canceling the debt just passes the bills on to other taxpayers unfairly.
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That's Ryan Liebenfall, author of the book Burdened, Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis.
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That includes debris removal, temporary shelters, salaries for first responders, and more for 180 days.
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Liebenthal says how we address the problem comes down to what we value as a society.
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Biden has been able to cancel some debt by expanding existing congressionally approved programs, like one that forgives the student debt of people who work for 10 years in public service. And his administration has forgiven a lot of the debts of people swindled by for-profit colleges. President-elect Trump has harshly criticized these loan forgiveness efforts.
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And Liebenthal says Project 2025 holds clues as to what action the next administration may take on this issue. Now, Trump has disavowed Project 2025, but the plan included input from some of his loyalists.
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To hear some of Liebenthal's ideas to address this problem and the surprising reason why the first federal loan program was created, check out this week's episode of Apple News in Conversation. We have it queued up to play for you next. If you're listening in the podcast app, you can follow Apple News in Conversation to find that episode.
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And you can find all the stories we talked about today in the Apple News app. Have a great weekend, and we'll be back with the news on Monday.
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Meanwhile, in the press and on social media, there's a lot of criticism being lobbed at LA's mayor, Karen Bass, who is a Democrat. For the first 24 hours of the crisis, Bass was a constant presence online. She declared a state of emergency and urged residents to flee, but she herself was far from the fires on a diplomatic mission in Africa.
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Bass and her team say that she was in communication with top officials the entire time she was away and returned to Los Angeles as fast as possible.