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California homeowners shared video clips of the damaging flames plowing through the Pacific Palisades area as a fire continues to blaze since its start on Tuesday.

Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in Los Angeles County in California, as strong Santa Ana winds stoke the blazes.

A United Airlines passenger recalled the moment he caught a bird's-eye view of the raging wildfires engulfing the Los Angeles area, describing the sight as "Mordor from ‘Lord of the Rings’."

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump's plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico by joking about renaming the U.S. "Mexican America."

The NHL on Wednesday postponed a game between the Los Angeles Kings and Calgary Flames as wildfires burn near the Crypto.com Arena in Southern California.

Yesterday morning, donning his new signature fit—gold chain, oversize T-shirt, surfer hair—Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social-media platforms are getting a makeover. His aggrievement was palpable: For years, Zuckerberg said, “governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.” No longer. Meta is abolishing its third-party fact-checking program, starting in the U.S.; loosening its content filters; and bringing political content back to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. “It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression,” Meta’s chief executive declared.In the announcement, Zuckerberg identified “the recent elections,” in which Donald Trump won the presidency and Republicans claimed both houses of Congress, as a “cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.” He said Meta will take direct inspiration from X’s “Community Notes” feature, which allows users to annotate posts—and surfaces the annotations based on how other users rate them—rather than granting professional fact-checkers authority to remove or label posts. Among the notable changes is permitting users to describe gay and transgender people as having “mental illness.”The dog-whistling around legacy media, censorship, and free-speech sounded uncannily like one of Zuckerberg’s greatest rivals: Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and a defender of the most noxious speech—at least when he agrees with it. Over the past several years, Musk has become a far-right icon, railing against major publications and liberal politicians for what he deems a “censorship government-industrial complex.” After buying Twitter, he renamed it X and has turned the platform into a bastion for hate speech, personally spread misinformation, and become a Trump confidante and trusted adviser. Zuckerberg has been feuding with Musk for years over their respective social-media dominance and masculinity—the pair even publicly challenged each other to a cage match in 2023.[Read: X is a white-supremacist site]This week’s policy changes might be understood as another throwdown between the two men. Although Facebook and Instagram are both considerably more popular than X—not to mention extremely profitable—they lack the political relevance that Musk has cultivated on his platform. That asset has helped bring Trump back for occasional posting there (he is still much more active on his own platform, Truth Social) and, more important, has put X and its owner in favorable positions ahead of Trump’s ascension to the presidency. Musk will even co-lead a new federal commission advising his administration. Their close relationship will likely benefit Musk’s AI, space, and satellite companies, too. Zuckerberg, meanwhile, has not been viewed favorably by Trump or his allies: The president-elect has stated that Zuckerberg steered Facebook against him during the 2020 election, and threatened to put the Meta CEO in jail for “the rest of his life,” while Republicans such as Ohio Representative Jim Jordan have complained about alleged censorship on the platform. Currying favor with the right wing, as Musk has done so successfully, may well be mission critical for Meta, which is currently facing an antitrust suit from the Federal Trade Commission that it would surely rather settle.These shifts are occurring against a longer transformation for the company and its chief executive. Zuckerberg has gone from a deferential, awkward, almost robotic nerd to a flashy mixed-martial-arts enthusiast who posts photos of his fights and has public beef with other tech executives. Meta, after years of waning influence, has been attempting a cultural and technological revival as well—pivoting hard toward generative AI by widely promoting its flagship Llama models and launching its own X competitor, Threads. These personal and corporate changes are one and the same: Zuckerberg has recently shared a photo of him reading his infant a picture book titled Llama; posted AI-enhanced videos of himself sporting his new martial-arts physique, leg-pressing gold chains or dressed as a Roman centurion; and showcased an AI-generated illustration of himself in a boy band. Also this week, the company announced that Dana White, the CEO and president of UFC (and a notable Trump backer), joined Meta’s board of directors. The blog post outlining Meta’s new “more speech” policies was written by Joel Kaplan, a Republican lobbyist at Meta who just replaced the company’s long-standing head of global policy, who was considered center-left. Jordan, the once adversarial congressperson, said he is pleased with Meta’s new approach to content moderation and will meet with Zuckerberg in the coming weeks.[Read: New Mark Zuckerberg dropped]But for all the effort and bravado, Zuckerberg and Meta have been consistently outdone by Musk. The latter already overhauled X into a “free speech” haven for the right. If Meta is responding to the recent election by currying favor with the incoming Trump administration, Musk helped bring Republicans victory and will advise that administration. Musk helped get OpenAI off the ground, and his newer and smaller AI company, xAI, rapidly developed a model, Grok, that has matched and by some metrics surpassed Meta’s own. Zuckerberg might boast about Meta’s AI infrastructure, but xAI partnered with Nvidia to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer in a shockingly fast 122 days. Musk has touted Grok as fulfilling the need for an anti-“woke” AI—the software has been shown to readily sexualize female celebrities and illustrate racist caricatures. It’s easy to imagine Meta lowering its AI guardrails next in a bid to better emulate Musk’s own offensive showboating.Even if he catches up, Zuckerberg still lacks the confidence of his rival. He presents as both rehearsed and ostentatious; he announced the end of independent fact-checking while wearing a $900,000 watch. Musk is many things, but he is not a poser: His speech is rambling, off-the-cuff, and perceived as visionary by his followers and much of Silicon Valley. He shows up to Trump rallies wearing T-shirts and talks business while streaming video games. “This is cool,” Musk wrote of Meta’s “free speech” pivot, on X, as if commending a younger sibling.Becoming a martial-arts enthusiast, pivoting to AI, bringing Republicans into Meta’s leadership, decrying “legacy media” and “censorship,” and permitting homophobia are Zuckerberg’s attempts at defiance and renewal. But in no respect is he leading the conversation—rather than upending the technological landscape with the “metaverse,” he is following his competitors in both AI and social media. He may not be capitulating to the Democratic establishment, as he believes his company did in the past, but he is still capitulating to the establishment. It’s just that this time, he is apologizing to the ascendant far-right. “They’ve come a long way,” the president-elect said of Meta’s changes at a press conference yesterday. (Did he think the changes were made in response to threats he had made toward Zuckerberg in the past? “Probably,” Trump responded.)It is worth recalling that Facebook did not strengthen its approach to content moderation and limit political content, changes that Zuckerberg now says amount to “censorship,” just because a few Democratic senators asked. Russian-interference campaigns, various domestic far-right militias, and all manner of misinformation were rampant on the platform for years, wreaking havoc on multiple presidential-election cycles. Facebook exposed users’ private data, was used to plan the Capitol insurrection in the U.S., and fueled ethnic genocide abroad. The platform, prior to those policy changes, was viewed by some as a legitimate threat to democracy; “we have made a lot of mistakes,” Zuckerberg told Congress in 2018. He has had a change of heart—yesterday, Zuckerberg again promised to make “fewer mistakes,” this time referencing the supposed policing of conservative speech. For one of Silicon Valley’s self-appointed kings, perhaps abetting the unraveling of democracy and civil society is, in the end, nothing to apologize for.

Tom Brady reportedly spoke to Bill Belichick to gauge his interest in becoming the Las Vegas Raiders head coach. Belichick is the head coach at North Carolina.

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate and real estate developer Rick Caruso rips the Pacific Palisades' decimated water supply as "complete mismanagement."

The Dallas Cowboys have reportedly denied the Chicago Bears permission to interview head coach Mike McCarthy despite no word on a contract extension for the veteran coach.

The powerful Palisades Fire left behind a trail of destruction as it raged in Los Angeles.

According to a recent survey, the majority of Americans want to improve their financial habits in 2025.

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California offers great gifts and great risks. Steve Lopez weighs them all as he gets ready for a possible evacuation from the brutal Eaton fire.

The judge has absolutely no power to stop the release of this document.

The Directors Guild of America named the five nominees for its feature film award, a key precursor in the Oscar race, on Wednesday. Here's who made the list.

The Eaton Fire has spread across 10,000 acres, according to officials, and at least two deaths have been confirmed. CBS News Los Angeles' Joy Benedict reports.

The brush fire appeared to be a spot fire caused by the strong winds pushing flames and embers from the Palisades fire, said Margaret Stewart with the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

Colorado Buffaloes two-way player Travis Hunter and his fiancée Leanna Lenee are going strong after the public controversy over their relationship last month.

President-elect Donald Trump's turning up the volume on his calls to acquire Greenland, regain control of the Panama Canal and make Canada the nation's 51st state are forcing world leaders to react and respond, and likely will foreshadow the blunt effect his second administration will have on the globe.

Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, like the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fires, are burning across Los Angeles.

Mexican press pokes fun at Trump's suggestion to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Israel’s military says troops have recovered the body of an additional hostage from Gaza.

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the social media company is getting rid of its fact-checking program. Instead, it will rely on a community-driven system where users correct inaccurate posts.

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Hurricane-force winds are still fanning embers that are spreading wildfires in parts of Los Angeles County. CBS News Bay Area meteorologist Jessica Burch has the latest weather forecast.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's Department of Government Efficiency says it's now hiring. Here's how to apply.

Former Democratic Rep. Susan Wild admitted on Wednesday that she had real concerns about President Biden's speaking abilities and said that the presidential race was "unwinnable."

Some of her bargains include a $5.5k Loro Piana cashmere cape she found for $7.99, a pair of $2.2k Prada boots for $170 and an Escada fox fur coat she bought for $699 that retails for $4.3k.

Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has indicated that he is mulling the possibility of mounting a Florida gubernatorial bid.

The Pacific Palisades home famously featured in a 2019 episode of "The Hills: New Beginnings" has been reduced to ashes in a devastating wildfire.

CBS News' Jonathan Vigliotti says he is overwhelmed by the massive destruction in the area of the Pacific Palisades. Vigliotti is getting his first look at the downtown area where many structures burned to the ground.

In the clip, the pop star, who wore her hair in two braided pigtails, rubbed oil over her stomach before pressing wooden body massagers all over her body.

The move comes as the Warner film studio faces pressure to increase its profitability. The exiting executives, Josh Goldstine and Andrew Cripps, were not in charge of picking movies.

A top NYC weight-loss doctor shared the surprising skin complication that he's encountered in patients using GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic.

“In order for us to try to fulfill the vision and really make it the place that we wanted to make it, we're like, ‘OK, screw it. We'll do this ourselves and we'll just try to get it done.’”

President-elect Donald Trump is blaming California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the wildfires that are spreading in parts of Los Angeles County. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.

One of three wealthy brothers accused of drugging and raping dozens of women in multiple states reportedly missed his court hearing on Tuesday after a mix-up in the case.

More than 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet have been rescued, Chinese officials said on Wednesday, with an unknown number still unaccounted for in freezing weather.

Residents flee as wind-fueled fires continue raging in California; L.A. Fire Department asked all off-duty firefighters to call in to their supervisors to say whether they're available to assist in the firefight.

With fires tearing through neighborhoods of Los Angeles overnight and into the morning, LA Fire Captain Erik Scott showed the effects on the city’s air quality as morning arrived. Tens of thousands of residents evacuated Los Angeles, with little to no containment of the fires spreading.

"More and more people are using sleep medication, and it's really important to know if that's healthy sleep," said lead study author Natalie Hauglund.

The 4,661-square-foot aerie at 1 E. 62nd St., now owned by a Saudi prince, hit the market on Wednesday for $28 million.

Two Americans have been arrested in Venezuela, with President Nicolas Maduro claiming the charges relate to an intent to "practice terrorism against the Venezuelan people."

Currently, Greenlanders are full citizens of Denmark and are subject to the Danish constitution.

He was quarterback Lamar Jackson’s top option throughout the regular season and paced the Ravens in targets, receptions and receiving yards.

Officials say at least two people died in the Eaton Fire and they expect the number of deaths to grow as firefighters battle at least five blazes in California. Structures continue to burn as those forced to evacuate await news on the state of their homes. CBS News' Elise Preston has more.

Wild images taken from an airplane captured the devastating Palisades Fire as flights heading into Southern California were forced to divert — and as the flames spread over nearly 3,000 acres with zero containment by Wednesday morning.