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January 13, 2025     "If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." —Katharine Hepburn   1 Palisades Fire May Have Started at Site of New Year's Blaze Not long after midnight on the first day of the new year, firefighters were called to a fire in the Santa Monica Mountains near the southern California community of Pacific Palisades. Keep reading   2 Bannon Escalates Musk Fight: 'He Is a Truly Evil Guy' Steve Bannon and Elon Musk were on opposite sides of a high-profile rift in Trump world last month over visas for skilled workers. Keep reading     At a Glance Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is seen on Launch Complex 36 shortly before the launch attempt was scrubbed at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) Keep reading   3 Trudeau: Here's What Trump's '51st State' Remarks Are Doing Canada's outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday suggested that President-elect Trump's remarks about Canada becoming America's "51st state" have distracted attention from the harm that steep tariffs would inflict on US consumers, the AP reports. Keep reading   4 Mandy Moore Gets Grief Over Sharing In-Laws' Fire Fundraiser Mandy Moore was among those whose homes burned in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, and so are her sister- and brother-in-law. Keep reading   5 Biden Considers Deal to Free Americans Held by Taliban President Biden spoke Sunday with relatives of three Americans the US government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan, but it was unclear from the call if a deal to bring them back that is now on the table could be completed before the he leaves office next week, the AP reports. Keep reading   6 JPMorgan: Time to Come Back Into the Office Full-Time The latest company to require employees to return to the office five days a week: JPMorgan Chase. Keep reading     7 Virus Causing Concern in China Is on the Decline, Official Says The rate of human metapneumovirus infections in China is going down, according to a health official who gave an updated Sunday. Keep reading   8 Biden, Netanyahu Discuss Ceasefire on Phone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Biden spoke Sunday about efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war, a sign of the intensifying push to reach a deal before President-elect Trump's inauguration next week, the AP reports. Keep reading   Today From Newser.AI Pope Francis Baptizes 21 Babies in Sistine Chapel See more stories from our human + machine experiment here.   This Day in History On Jan. 13, 2021, President Trump was impeached by the US House over the violent Jan. 6 siege of the Capitol, becoming the only president to be twice impeached. Ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of "incitement of insurrection" a week before his term expired. (Trump would again be acquitted by the Senate in a vote after his term was over.) Find out what else happened on this date here.   From the Newser Archives On this day in 2020: Queen Backs Harry, Meghan's Wish for Less-Royal Lives   Yesterday's Most-Read Stories   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Read our stories on MSN. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2025 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved