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Some 6.5 million people in the area under critical fire threat as losses estimated at $275bn, making it the costliest natural disaster in US history

US Senate confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s proposed cabinet members began with the 44-year-old former Fox News television host

Analysts and former officials warn that the Houthis, situated 2,000km away, are a vastly different and more complex challenge than adversaries closer to home

Meta, Pfizer and Google among companies aiming to keep in Donald Trump’s good books

Deserted Saudi stadium; Mikel Arteta talking balls; and Alex Ferguson’s son on players being picked to play against their dads

Gavin Newsom dismisses Donald Trump as ‘delusional’ following criticisms about handling of disaster

Former Trump advisor pledges to ‘take this guy down’ and kick him out of the Maga movement

Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as Trump, the felonious, ascended again to the Oval Office

A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years

Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes

Locally strong Santa Ana winds could soon return, national weather service warns

More than 35,000 acres of the Los Angeles area have been destroyed, killing at least 11 people

On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín; On the Edge by Nate Silver; The Magic of an Irish Rainforest by Eoghan Daltun; Last Night by Sven Popović, and more

Fires around city have so far destroyed nearly 10,000 structures, with at least 180,000 residents ordered to evacuate

Irish bar owner says he feared what he had in his bag would be all he would have left in the world as fires neared

Barack Obama was seated beside Donald Trump with former vice-president Mike Pence just behind them

Italian prime minister seeks to allay concerns that Trump might break with Washington’s traditional European allies as he pursues a Maga agenda

At least six fires are currently active across the Californian city with five people confirmed to have been killed

A wind-and-wildfire monster attacked a metropolis of nearly 10 million people, whipping up flames that tore through communities of every stripe

With a fierce drive to prove myself, I was the underdog from Milltown determined to outwork everyone in the room

Europe’s mixed economy could help create a new sort of success story

Biggest fire consumes more than 5,000 acres in wealthy Pacific Palisades neighbourhood between Santa Monica and Malibu

US president-elect vows to ‘tariff Denmark at a very high level’ unless it gives up Greenland and doesn’t rule out using force

Bid comes after a New York appeals court denied incoming president’s effort to halt sentencing scheduled for this Friday

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Artificial intelligence chief says allegations are ‘utterly untrue’ in joint statement with mother and two brothers

Met Éireann forecaster Gerry Murphy described conditions as ‘quite unusual’ but we have seen similar in recent years

Based in Dublin, Fire1 has 60 staff and has raised $213m to date from 13 investors since it was set up a decade ago

Irish medtech company claims its technology enables patients to monitor and control their fluid volume themselves with a device at home

Blurring of online jokes about Canada and declarations of intent - such as buying Greenland - by the world’s most powerful man is deeply destabilising. Ireland could be next

John Larson Tracey moved from Washington to Ireland in 2019 and now lives in Kildare with his husband

President-elect says he plans to pardon some of those charged with taking part in assault on Capitol on January 6th, 2021

Governors in Kansas, Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland declared states of emergency

Court allows cities to criminalise sleeping outside as president-elect promises to ‘get the homeless off our streets’

Meloni is seen as a potentially strong partner for Trump given her conservative credentials

‘Unconditional discharge’ sentence, meaning no jail time or fine, would be ‘most viable solution’, says Justice Juan Merchan

Johnson passed minimum numbers of votes needed after two party opponents switched theirs to support him

Israel’s military claims it hit around 40 Hamas gathering points and command centres while taking measures to reduce harm to civilians

Consumption of beer, wine and spirits increases risk of developing breast, colon, liver and other cancers, says report

Matthew Alan Livelsberger was a US army special forces master sergeant in Green Berets