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LOS ANGELES - Three major fires fueled by devastating winds have burned more than 20,000 acres in Los Angeles County in just over a day. The winds have made the firefight difficult, particularly for units in the air. Dozens of structures have been destroyed and tens of thousands have been evacuated.

While multiple agencies are working together to put out the flames, these fires come just six months after LA Mayor Karen Bass and the LA City Council enacted a new budget which slashed the Los Angeles Fire Department's funding.

According to Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia, the city cut the LAFD's funding by $17.6 million in the 2025 fiscal year, which started on July 1, 2024. Compared to the city's other departments, the LAFD saw the second-largest cut, next to street services. Click here to read more.

 

LOS ANGELES, CALIF - Wildfires are being drawn inexorably into the climate change hysteria as dueling experts seek to explain the warm, dry weather we have experienced this year.

One recent article correctly moved past the climate concerns to explain how “The truth about forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke.” The author, Ross McKitrick, a professor of environmental economics at the University of Guelph, Ontario, gets it right when he describes how the number of wildfires and area burned have trended down over the past few decades in Canadian forests. He uses numbers from the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System.

“Wildfires have been getting less frequent in Canada over the past 30 years,” McKitrick writes. “The annual number of fires grew from 1959 to 1990, peaking in 1989 at just over 12,000 that year, and has been trending down since. From 2017 to 2021 (the most recent interval available), there were about 5,500 fires per year, half the average from 1987 to 1991.” Click here to read more.

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The Biden administration is preparing to issue roughly $55 million in refunds to illegal aliens who applied for its Keeping Families Together program.

In August, Biden's Department of Homeland Security implemented the program, which would have granted temporary legal status to "certain noncitizen spouses and noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens." The program promised to streamline the path to permanent residency.

To be eligible, spousal applicants had to be married to an American citizen and have resided in the country for the past 10 years. Stepchildren needed to be under 21 years old, unmarried, and have an illegal alien parent who is married to a citizen.

While those who had committed serious violent offenses were not eligible, the program carved out exceptions for other crimes. Illegal aliens facing removal proceedings could also apply. Click here to read more.

 

BENTONVILLE, AR - Two major retailers confirmed this week that they do not sell a popular abortion pill, despite pressure from Democratic officials to do so.

Both Kroger and Sam’s Club confirmed to The Daily Wire that they do not offer mifepristone for sale after screenshots posted online last month appeared to show the life-ending drug available for purchase. Mifepristone is now used in over half of all abortions and has been used across the country to bypass pro-life protections in Republican-led states.

The controversy emerged last month after pro-life organization Live Action reported that both Kroger and Sam’s Club had mifepristone, which is estimated to be used in over half of abortions, advertised on their websites.

An archived page from December 18 on Kroger’s website shows mifepristone listed for sale. Click here to read more.

 

LOMBARD, ILL - LOMBARD, Ill. (WKRC) - A man went viral after discovering a decades-old Christmas gift inside the walls of his childhood home.

According to PEOPLE, Tim King, the owner of T.King Construction Services in Lombard, Illinois discovered a Christmas present from around 1978 in the walls of his childhood home while performing renovation work on the property.

King posted video of the shocking discovery to Instagram on December 27. The video later went viral and has garnered more than 51,000 likes. Click here to watch the video.

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CHICAGO, IL - McDonald’s has ended certain diversity goals for its leadership and suppliers following a review that included the legal impacts of a US Supreme Court decision that barred racial preferences in university admissions.

The fast-food chain said on Monday that it will drop “representation goals”. The company had previously aimed to have women to account for 45 per cent of global leadership roles and for 35 per cent of US company leaders to come from “underrepresented,” or non-white, groups, by the end of 2025.

McDonald’s also said it will no longer ask suppliers to sign a pledge known as the Mutual Commitment to DEI. The company’s diversity team will now be called the “Global Inclusion Team” and it will

 

FREELAND, Mich - Michigan’s environmental agency could fine a Freeland man $1.7 million for deepening his own pond.

From 2020-2023, Joshua Wenzlick expanded a small pond on his property. The state considers the land, a former sand mine, a regulated wetland, according to his brother Zachary Wenzlick, who spoke to Michigan Capitol Confidential in a phone interview.

After confirming that the local government didn’t require him to obtain a permit for the project, Joshua hired Schlicht Ponds of Montrose, a licensed contractor, to excavate the pond to about 20 feet in one section. That depth is sufficient to sustain wildlife when the pond freezes over in the winter, ensuring there would be enough oxygen.

Joshua stocked the pond with about 700 fish — a mix of bass, bluegill, crappie, and perch. After stocking the pond, ducks, geese, and painted turtles moved into the pond, Zach said. Click here to read more.

 

JACKSON, OH - An Ohio teacher who resigned after refusing to use students’ preferred pronouns and names will receive a $450,000 settlement from her school district.

Vivian Geraghty sued the Jackson Local School District in 2022, and the settlement was reached last month, the New York Post reported over the weekend. She was aided in her suit by Alliance Defending Freedom, which released a statement to NBC4 late last week.

“The school tried to force Vivian to accept and repeat the school’s viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students,” said Logan Spena, legal counsel for ADF. “The First Amendment prohibits that abuse of power, and Jackson Local School District officials have learned that comes at a steep cost.” Click here to read more.

 

BOSTON, MASS - Police charged five students at Assumption University with ambushing, chasing down and falsely accusing a soldier of being a sexual predator back in October.

Police alleged that the five accused lured the 22-year-old victim to campus with the purpose of framing him as a sexual predator looking for underage victims, WCVB 5 reported. The students were inspired by the TV series “To Catch a Predator” and a recent TikTok trend of people mimicking the show, police said. (RELATED: Influencer Who Allegedly Uploaded Video Of Herself Stealing From Target Shoplifted From Same Location, Police Say)

One student — 18-year-old Kelsy Brainard — allegedly messaged the victim on a dating app. Their messages developed in a sexual manner and her friends organized the plot, according to police. Brainard took the man into a basement lounge and watched TV with him, court documents citing campus video footage said. Almost 30 students then allegedly approached the man. Click here to read more.

 

LANSING, MICH - With Trump-endorsed Republican Mike Johnson from Louisiana retaining the Speaker’s gavel after the Friday vote on January 3rd, members of Congress have been sworn in and are officially back to work.

Republicans are now poised to control Congress with what will be a razor-thin 217-215 majority. This count excludes former GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who did not return to Congress, as well as two other representatives transitioning to roles in the Trump Administration.

Four of the 215 Democratic Representatives – Michigan’s Debbie Dingell, Haley Stevens, Rashida Tlaib, and Shri Thanedar – returned to Congress after winning re-election, despite all four voting against the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes.

The Nancy Mace-sponsored “Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act” which was voted on less than four months ago sought to remove rapists, pedophiles, domestic abusers, stalkers and other predators from U.S. soil. But these four Michigan Democratic Reps, along with 154 others at the time, decided the legislation was a step too far for them to vote for as we reported back in September. Click here to read more.