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11 dead, 12K structures destroyed in LA fires

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USA TODAY

News, Daily News

4.11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Los Angeles area fires are turning entire neighborhoods into ash.

USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen puts Donald Trump's hush money sentencing in context.

The Biden administration extends protections for nearly 1 million immigrants.

USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe breaks down Friday arguments over TikTok.

Earth passed a critical climate change threshold in 2024.

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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Saturday, January 11th, 2025.

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This is the exit.

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Today, the damage from Southern California fires rises, plus what a historic Donald Trump's sentencing actually means, and we sink into the Supreme Court arguments over the future

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of TikTok.

1:37.5

At least 11 people have been killed, and some 12,000 structures have been destroyed as wildfires

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continue to move through Los Angeles

1:45.1

area communities. Fires have scorched some 56 square miles in area about the size of Miami,

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