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Wildfires in Southern California reduced entire neighborhoods to ashes.
The street behind us are what caught fire.
So our backyard caught fire.
Does the region have the resources to bring the ongoing disaster under control?
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President Biden delivers the eulogy today at funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter.
Here in Washington, where even remembrances can carry political messages, they often reveal as.
Many much about the speaker as they do the person being honored and eulogized, their worldview, what they believe in, their values, their vision.
How will the former president be remembered?
And President Elect Trump met with Senate Republicans to help chart a course for his second term.
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