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The driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that blew up outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year's Day has been identified as 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger.

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Fullerton police says that there has been a plane crash near the Fullerton Municipal Airport on Thursday afternoon.

Friday will be House Speaker Mike Johnson's moment of truth as Republican holdouts decide whether he should lay claim to the gavel again in the next Congress -- or opt instead to plunge their conference into disarray once more.

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The first lady was gifted a $20,000 diamond from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2023, a new State Department report says.

Investigators released fresh security camera video showing the suspect sitting on a park bench, reaching into his backpack and planting a pipe bomb on Jan. 5, 2021.

Hydraulic fracturing has transformed the United States into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas — but not in New York, where politicians like Gov. Hochul stubbornly refuse to tap the enormous wealth beneath our feet.

On the second anniversary of his near-death snowplow accident, Jeremy Renner thanked the first responders and medical staff that helped him survive.

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The House rules package for the 119th Congress includes a bill that would bring about Title IX revisions to ban trans athletes from women's sports.

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The incident comes amid heightened law enforcement presence in numerous cities following a terrorist attack in New Orleans and a Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside a Las Vegas hotel owned by President-elect Donald Trump.

One rock bottom after another, John. It all starts at the top.

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"Yellowstone" has had an effect.

An endangered orca who carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 is doing so once again following the death of her new calf.

Chefs weigh in on how much salt is needed for the best-tasting pasta after a video of Food Network celebrity chefs showing their approach to the task went viral on social media.

The Parents Defending Education released a report Thursday that detailed how the Department of Justice spent millions on proposals related to DEI education.

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Georgia Bulldogs cornerback Parker Jones was penalized on a big play in the second quarter against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Sugar Bowl.

Sanders released a statement opposing Musk's viewpoint on H-1B visas.

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.On New Year’s Day, while looking for something to watch, I came across a channel with a loud, gray-haired British guy in a nice suit and a scarf bellowing about something or other. I assumed that I had turned to CNN and was watching its ebullient, occasionally shouty business and aviation correspondent, Richard Quest. I wasn’t even close: It was Roger Daltrey of the Who, and he was excitedly introducing the new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Peter Frampton in a condensed version of the October ceremony.Frampton’s music was, for a moment in the 1970s, the soundtrack to my misspent teenage nights; on the broadcast, Keith Urban joined him to perform his megahit “Do You Feel Like We Do,” and I remembered every word. And Frampton seems like a man who is genuinely loved by his peers. It was a nice moment. But when 80-year-old Daltrey—who, at 21, famously sang, “Hope I die before I get old”—is introducing a man whose biggest hits were produced nearly 50 years ago, it’s a reminder that the entire Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concept is utterly wrongheaded.As the saying goes, good writers borrow, and great writers steal. I was once a professor, however, and professors give attribution, so let me rely on John Strausbaugh, who wrote a wonderful 2001 jeremiad against Boomer music nostalgia, Rock ’Til You Drop, to explain why the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame shouldn’t exist: Because it’s “as true to the spirit of rock’n’roll as a Hard Rock Cafe—one in which there are way too many children and you can’t get a drink.” The Hall of Fame is about old and dead people; rock’n’roll is about the young and living. The Hall of Fame tries to reform rock’n’roll, tame it, reduce it to bland, middle-American family entertainment; it drains all the sexiness and danger and rebelliousness out of it … Strasbaugh winces especially hard at the Rock Hall tradition of “honoring” classic acts by “dragging their old butts out onto a stage” and then making them “go through the motions one more time” as they pretend to feel the music the same way they did when they were kids. Writing almost 25 years ago, he said that the Rolling Stones were way past their retirement clock, and that Cher in her late-1990s performances “was so stiff in her makeup and outfits, that she looked like a wax effigy of herself.”Last year, the Rolling Stones went on tour again and were sponsored by—I am serious—the AARP.And Cher was also just inducted into the Rock Hall in October, at 78 years old. When you’re asking Cher to suit up so that she can be lauded by the young-enough-to-be-her-granddaughter Dua Lipa, you may be trying to honor the artist, but you’re mostly just reminding everyone about the brutal march of time.I am sometimes blistered on social media for my bad music takes, and I will confess that with some exceptions, I didn’t really develop much of a taste in music beyond the Beatles, Billy Joel, and Top 40 ear candy until I was in college. (My musical soul was saved, or at least improved, by the old WBCN in Boston and by my freshman-dorm neighbor at Boston University, who introduced me to Steely Dan.) But you don’t need a refined taste in music to cringe when a bunch of worthies from the music industry assemble each year to make often nonsensical choices about what constitutes “rock and roll” and who did it well enough to be lionized for the ages. Look, I sort of like some of those old Cher hits from the ’70s—“Train of Thought” is an underrated little pop gem, in my view—but Cher as an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? If she, and Bobby Darin, and the Lovin’ Spoonful, and Woody Guthrie, and Willie Nelson are all “rock,” what isn’t?This is where I must also admit that I’ve never been to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, or even to Cleveland, for that matter. But I’d argue that seeing it all up close—as Strausbaugh notes in his book, it’s full of this rock artist once wore this shirt and that rock artist once touched this mic stand—isn’t the point. Trying to trap the energy and spirit of youthful greatness behind the ice in some sort of Fortress of Rock Solitude is nothing more than a monument to nostalgia. Worse, it’s an ongoing tribute not to music, but to capitalism. Perhaps the music business was always a business, but most rock and roll was about opposing the establishment, not asking for a nice table at its Chamber of Commerce ceremonies.Don’t get me wrong: I love both rock music and capitalism. I am also prone to a fair amount of my own nostalgia, and I will pay to see some of my favorite elderly stars get up onstage, wink at the audience, and pull out a few of their famous moves—as long as they do it with the kind of self-awareness that makes it more like a visit with an old friend than a soul-crushing pastiche of days gone by.But even when a return to the stage is done with taste, age can still take its toll on both the performer and the audience: I’m now in my 60s, and as much as I liked seeing Peter Frampton get a big round of applause, I didn’t feel warm or happy; I just felt old, because he was obviously old. (Frampton has an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness, so he had to sit to perform his arena anthem.) And when Keith Urban is playing along as the representative of the younger generation at 56 years old, it makes me feel a certain kind of pity for people who gave me the musical landscape of my youth.Maybe America doesn’t need to commercialize every Boomer memory. Artists become eligible for the Rock Hall 25 years from the release date of their first commercial recording, but rock can’t be distilled in 25-year batches like some sort of rare whiskey. Rock is more like … well, sex. Each generation has to experience it for themselves; later, each generation thinks they invented it; eventually, we all realize that no generation can fully explain their feelings about it to the next one.Speaking of sex and rebellion, one of the best arguments against the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is that Warren Zevon isn’t in it. His continuing exclusion is one of the great ongoing controversies of the selection process, but the point is not that Zevon should be in it; rather, the question is whether Zevon would ever want to be honored in such a place. The man who wrote “Play It All Night Long” and “Mr. Bad Example” simply doesn’t belong on a pedestal next to Mary J. Blige and Buffalo Springfield. And that’s reason enough that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame should not exist at all.Related: The secret joys of geriatric rock Rock never dies—but it does get older and wiser. Here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Doomed to be a tradwife Narendra Modi’s populist facade is cracking. Invisible habits are driving your life. Today’s News The FBI said that the attacker who killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day appears to have acted alone. Military officials said that the driver of a Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas yesterday was an Army master sergeant who was on leave from active duty. Federal agents searched the home of former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, who was accused of sexual misconduct last year. Maddrey has denied the allegations. Dispatches Time-Travel Thursdays: The poet Julia Ward Howe wrote an anthem of fervent patriotism in 1861—and it’s remained the soundtrack to American conflict ever since, Spencer Kornhaber writes. Explore all of our newsletters here.Evening Read Illustration by Giacomo Bagnara We’re All in “Dark Mode” NowBy Ian Bogost Dark mode has its touted benefits: Dimmer screens mean less eye strain, some assert; and on certain displays (including most smartphones), showing more black pixels prolongs battery life. Dark mode also has its drawbacks: Reading lots of text is more difficult to do in white-on-black. But even if these tradeoffs might be used to justify the use of inverted-color settings, they offer little insight into those settings’ true appeal. They don’t tell us why so many people suddenly want their screens, which had glowed bright for years, to go dark. And they’re tangential to the story of how, in a fairly short period of time, we all became creatures of the night mode. Read the full article.More From The Atlantic Why an early start is the “quintessence of life” Doctors thought they knew what a genetic disease is. They were wrong. L.A.’s twin crises finally seem fixable. A retiring congressman’s advice to new members of the House Culture Break Jan Buchczik Explore. These New Year’s resolutions will actually lead to happiness, Arthur C. Brooks wrote in 2020.Try something new. You can micromanage your kid’s life or ask for community help with child care—but you can’t have both, Stephanie H. Murray writes.Play our daily crossword.Stephanie Bai contributed to this newsletter.When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.

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The explosion caused minor injuries to seven other people but virtually no damage to the hotel.

The move, expected as early as Monday, relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.

House Speaker Mike Johnson gives remarks at the Capitol on December 19, 2024. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images House Republicans could soon experience some serious deja vu. On Friday, January 3, the newly elected Congress will convene for the first time and vote for a House speaker. Like last term — when it took 15 rounds for former GOP Speaker Kevin McCarthy to be elected — this contest could well be chaotic due to Republicans’ narrow majority and conservative opposition to current Speaker Mike Johnson, who is again his party’s candidate for the job. At stake is Republicans’ ability to get pretty much anything done in the near term. The House isn’t able to function without a speaker, which means that key tasks, like certifying the presidential election on January 6, are at risk of being delayed. Any speaker drama also sends a pointed message about the enduring divides within the party — and how they could pose a real challenge when it comes to the GOP’s attempts to pass actual policies in the coming year. Republicans have a 219-215 majority — one member less than expected since former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has said he won’t be returning — so Johnson can only afford to lose one GOP member if all Democrats vote against him, as they’re likely to do. (A candidate must win a majority of all votes to secure the job, so if all 434 members vote for a speaker option, Johnson will need 218 votes to win. If some members vote “present,” that math becomes more convoluted.) Already, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has said he won’t be backing Johnson, and others, like Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX), Andy Harris (R-MD) and Scott Perry (R-PA), have refrained from committing their votes. Johnson has been scrambling to lock up the support he needs in recent weeks, including securing President-elect Donald Trump’s endorsement this past Monday, as well as the backing of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who’s taken to weighing in on congressional infighting. It’s not yet clear, however, if that backing will be sufficient to win over his skeptics, who are angry about Johnson’s reliance on Democratic votes to approve funding bills and frustrated about the lack of transparency from leadership on major pieces of legislation. The House needs a speaker to function Any speaker chaos effectively impedes the basic functions of the House. As laid out by a 1789 law, a speaker is required for everything from swearing in members to organizing committees to passing new legislation. The speaker election — which takes place via a public roll call vote — ultimately needs to happen prior to any other congressional business. The January 2023 fight over former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s election offered a preview of the potential consequences: As the voting process stretched to multiple days, members grew concerned about their inability to provide constituent services and to receive classified briefings, since they hadn’t technically been sworn in yet. Unlike in 2023, however, there are also considerations beyond the day-to-day work of Congress this term. The speaker role likely needs to be filled for the House to certify the presidential election results on Monday, and a failure to do so could delay the certification of Trump’s victory. As CNN reported Thursday, Johnson’s allies have cited this concern as a reason for his detractors to stand down. If the House fails to elect a speaker by January 6, lawmakers could try to push the certification date to later in the month or test other unprecedented alternatives, like electing a temporary speaker, to clear this procedural hurdle. It’s not certain, however, that the House parliamentarian, a nonpartisan official who advises Congress on interpreting the rules, would go along with such workarounds, according to George Washington University professor Sarah Binder, an expert on congressional rules. Binder notes that there are ways that the House could utilize a temporary speaker to conduct urgent business but that the parliamentarian might advise against doing so. If they did, lawmakers would likely abide by this judgment since the parliamentarian’s decisions have typically held significant weight. (The parliamentarian’s advice isn’t binding, and lawmakers have ignored it in the past, but these instances have been rare.) Possible chaos is a preview of Republican divides — and the fights to come Any speaker fight also signals just how deep Republican divides continue to go — and how chaotic efforts to advance their policies are poised to be. It also shows the power of the party’s right flank, which twice held the speaker’s contest hostage in 2023 in order to make demands about coveted positions on committees and the power to depose House leadership. “It’s a reflection of the underlying disagreements and factionalism within the House Republican Conference,” Binder told Vox. “Whether we date them to Donald Trump, whether we date it to MAGA, whether we date it to the Tea Party [movement in 2009] or beyond … [or] activist conservatives versus the establishment, the Republican Party has long been wrought by this central faction.” McCarthy’s contentious election — and governance — last term provided a vivid preview of these fault lines. In January 2023, it took multiple rounds of voting across four days — eventually resolving early in the morning on January 7 — before McCarthy was elected speaker, thanks to conservative opposition to his leadership. To win the speaker’s gavel, McCarthy eventually offered significant concessions to far-right members, including seats on the Rules Committee and the ability for any Republican member to unilaterally force a vote on the removal of the speaker. The party’s right flank eventually succeeded in toppling McCarthy from the speakership in October 2023, igniting another round of fighting over the position. It then took more than three weeks for Republicans to fill the position again, with multiple nominations and multiple floor votes prior to Johnson’s elevation. It was McCarthy’s decision to work with Democrats to pass a short-term funding measure that precipitated his ouster, and on multiple occasions since then, Johnson has also had to rely on Democratic votes to keep the government open and to pass major foreign aid packages because his own conference was simply too fractured to agree on them. These splits, coupled with narrow margins in the House — which will get even narrower soon, as two Republican House members are set to join the Trump administration — are set to be tested again and again in 2025. The speaker’s race will be Republicans’ first hurdle, but any GOP efforts to pursue ambitious immigration and tax bills during Trump’s administration, or even to keep the government open, could prove fraught. “The stakes are higher for them [now],” says Binder, “because they’ve got Trump in the White House, and they have a policy agenda.”

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In the closing days of his administration, Biden plans to travel to California to dedicate the Chuckwalla National Monument, sources said.

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Jabbar’s house was filled with chemical residues and chemical bottles, while a list of items seized by FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in for bomb-making.

Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe, after two full seasons of going under center for the Crimson Tide, has announced his plans to enter the 2025 NFL Draft.

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