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Number of missing rises as Los Angeles fires continueFirefighters made some progress to contain the multiple wildfires across the city on Sunday as more desert winds arrived. The blazes have killed at least 16 people, and Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said that the number of missing increased by the hour. Follow our live coverage here.Entire neighborhoods have been destroyed, and the kind of gusts that have propelled the fires were expected to return after a possible reprieve. Even as crews managed to stop the momentum of the large Palisades fire, fire risk remained high in the region.…

Cybercriminals spare no industry, targeting sectors like health care, insurance, automotive and education. Health care has been a frequent target, with attacks like the Ascension breach last year and the CVR incident in late 2024. Now, education technology giant PowerSchool has become the latest target, with records of millions of students and teachers stolen.While the exact number of affected individuals remains unknown, the scale of the breach is alarming.PowerSchool serves 18,000 customers worldwide, including schools in the U.S. and Canada, managing grading, attendance and personal information for over 60 million K-12 students and teachers.I’M GIVING AWAY THE LATEST & GREATEST AIRPODS…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has re-iterated that Canada has no intention to become the 51st state of the US.”It’s not going to happen,” he said.Speaking to former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on MSNBC’s “Inside” on Sunday, Trudeau discussed President-Elect Donald Trump’s repeated comments that Canada could become a part of the US.”I know as a successful negotiator he likes to keep people off balance. The 51st state, it’s not going to happen,” he said.The prime minister, who has faced growing unpopularity in the polls ahead of a national election, announced that he will step down in March…

Please support PoliticusUSA by becoming a subscriber.It is a concept that was at the heart of the founding of our current constitutional system of government. The federal government is supposed to be there to assist states during a time of need. This assistance is why states send tax money to Washington, DC. California is the 49th least dependent state on federal government funds, and they send the six highest amount of tax dollars to the federal government.Given how much California adds to the federal coffers, Republicans should have no problem with providing them needed wildfire disaster relief.However, Trump’s party is…

Ukraine captured two wounded North Korean soldiers who were fighting on behalf of Russia in a Russian border region, South Korea’s intelligence service said, confirming an account from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday.Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) told AFP it has “confirmed that the Ukrainian military captured two North Korean soldiers on January 9 in the Kursk battlefield in Russia.”The confirmation comes after Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging app that the two captured North Korean soldiers were wounded and taken to Kyiv, where they are communicating with Ukrainian security services SBU.SBU released video that appears…

LA landlords illegally inflating rents, says Selling Sunset starLandlords have been illegally raising prices due to the Los Angeles wildfires, says Selling Sunset star Jason Oppenheim. The LA property mogul, who owns the luxury real estate brokerage at the centre of the Netflix reality show, said one client had been asked for thousands over the original asking price to rent a home – despite California’s anti “price gouging” laws.It comes as LA officials warned anyone caught “taking advantage” of the disaster by scamming or burgling wildfire victims would be prosecuted. Thousands of people have lost homes in LA and displaced…

A man decided to take his relationship to the next level and to brand-new heights by proposing to his girlfriend mid-flight.Sam Riber, a 34-year-old CEO from Pennsylvania, took inspiration from the Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore movie, “The Wedding Singer,” to propose to his now-fiancé, Lissy Alden, 37.The Philadelphia resident first met Alden, owner of mental and organizational fitness provider MYNDY, at a Shabbat dinner early last year. The two immediately felt a connection, as news agency SWNS reported.CALIFORNIA COUPLE GOES VIRAL FOR SHARING TOP PLACES TO VISIT IN THE US ‘AT LEAST ONCE IN YOUR LIFE'”I almost didn’t go…

About 35,000 homes and businesses without electricity in Los Angeles – data34,646 homes and businesses in Los Angeles are now without electricity, according to Poweroutage.us, an outage monitor that tracks blackouts across the US.Roughly 18,400 Southern California Edison customers remain without power, as well as about 16,100 Los Angeles Department of Water & Power customers, and about 100 with Pasadena Water and Power, according to the latest data.Here is the latest data showing the number of people without power in some of the other areas of California: San Bernardino: 8,333 Riverside: 7, 152 Santa Barbara: 2,081 In an update posted…

Taiza Carine da Costa got her first taste of gambling when she was just 9.She grew up in the rundown fringes of Rio de Janeiro, where her godparents would send her down the block, a few coins in hand, to bet on a popular lottery that, though illegal, has been a staple of life in Brazil for over a century.The habit stuck and, as an adult, she would bet daily on the game, in which players place wagers on animals represented by sets of numbers. Like many Brazilians, whenever she dreamed of a creature, she saw it as a sign…

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