What's in store for the music, TV, and film industries for 2025?

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Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Louise Ciavone.

From New Zealand to Hong Kong, to Thailand, to Mumbai.

Much of the world has turned the calendar page to 2025. In New York City's Times Square,

it's still eight hours away. Mary Eric Adams says they are ready.

We have plane-closed teams, canine teams, and officers on horsebacks and helicopters and on boats.

The full complement of our police personnel would be here.

The city's police commissioner Jessica Tisch said that there were no specific credible threats to the Times Square

celebrations. Security personnel from multiple state, city, and federal agencies are policing airports,

bridges, tunnels, and transit systems. As President Biden winds down his four years in office,

he and his allies are talking more about what they see is his legacy. And PR's Tamara Keith

reports. In his first two years in office, Biden signed several significant pieces of legislation.

White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt. But many of these things will take years to come to

fruition. So there will be a lasting impact here long past the moment that the

president leaves office in January. But Biden ran on making Donald Trump a one-term president,

and now Trump is about to be sworn in again, says presidential historian Tevi Troy.

With the results of the November election, Joe Biden's legacy completely flipped

from being the guy who defeated Trump to the guy who enabled Trump's return. Trump's success or

failure will likely affect how Biden is remembered. Tamara Keith, NPR News. A new UN report says

that deadly Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza

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