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Driving

California drivers warned to reconsider Christmas travel plans ahead of storms

Kansas City Chiefs

Royals face tough stadium decision of their own as Chiefs move to Kansas

Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker

DOJ sues Illinois’ governor over laws protecting immigrants at courthouses and hospitals

Medicaid

Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that

Gas pump

US drivers are seeing lower gas prices this holiday season

Shipping

Fast shipping is increasing emissions. Here’s why delivery has become more polluting

Lottery Jackpot

$1.6B Powerball jackpot to be drawn Monday, but the odds still aren’t in your favor

60 Minutes

‘60 Minutes’ pulls story about Trump deportations from its lineup

Betty Reid Soskin

Betty Reid Soskin, oldest National Park Service ranger, dies at 104

Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow to have surgery for early-stage lung cancer and postpones January concerts

Airport

These are expected to be the busiest days to fly this holiday season

Ken Paxton

Texas judge orders Attorney General Ken Paxton’s divorce records unsealed amid heated Senate primary

Power plant

Georgia regulators approve huge electric generation increase for data centers

Capital

Federal judge weighs Trump’s claim he is immune from civil litigation over Capitol attack

Brown University shooter

Motive still unknown after suspect in the Brown attack and MIT professor’s killing is found dead

President Trump

Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

Ghislaine Maxwell

Imprisoned Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell seeks release, citing ‘new evidence’

Sky

Catch the Ursid meteor shower as it peaks just before Christmas

Charlie Kirk

Turning Point youth conference begins in Phoenix without founder Charlie Kirk

Luigi Mangione

Judge says he’ll rule in May on Luigi Mangione’s fight to exclude evidence from NY murder trial

RFK Jr.

Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children

Shopping

US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren’t feeling it

Trump

States brace for Trump’s push to make oil drilling cheap again

Nick Reiner

Rob Reiner’s son Nick appears in court on 2 counts of murder in killing of his parents