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Gwen Stefani, left, of No Doubt, and Adrian Young perform during the FireAid benefit concert on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

FireAid benefit concert raised more than $100 million so far

Gwen Stefani, left, of No Doubt, and Adrian Young perform during the FireAid benefit concert on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

February 4, 2025, 9:08am Entertainment

The stars came out for FireAid and so did wallets — the massive benefit concert last week to raise money for those affected by the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires is expected to raise more than $100 million. Read story

FILE - Refugees prepare food including maize porridge donated by USAID and known locally as posho, during the visit of U.N. in Adjumani, Uganda, Aug. 29, 2016.

What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it

FILE - Refugees prepare food including maize porridge donated by USAID and known locally as posho, during the visit of U.N. in Adjumani, Uganda, Aug. 29, 2016.

February 4, 2025, 8:57am Nation & World

Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries. Read story

The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie is going on trial. The author will take the stand

February 4, 2025, 8:56am Nation & World

In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture before a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author’s hand as he raised it in self-defense. Read story

FILE - Neil Gaiman arrives at the Art of Elysium Heaven Gala on Jan. 6, 2024, at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles.

Woman’s lawsuits say sci-fi author Neil Gaiman repeatedly sexually assaulted her

FILE - Neil Gaiman arrives at the Art of Elysium Heaven Gala on Jan. 6, 2024, at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles.

February 4, 2025, 8:54am Nation & World

A woman from New Zealand has filed three civil lawsuits against best-selling British author Neil Gaiman and his wife, accusing Gaiman of repeatedly sexually assaulting her while she was working as the couple’s babysitter and nanny. Read story

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, rescue workers walk in front of a building that was heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Izium, Ukraine.

Trump wants Ukraine to guarantee access to rare earths for war aid

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, rescue workers walk in front of a building that was heavily damaged by a Russian strike in Izium, Ukraine.

February 4, 2025, 8:52am Nation & World

President Donald Trump said his administration wants an agreement with Ukraine for the war-torn country to offer access to its critical mineral resources in return for aiding its defense against Russia. Read story

New Jersey governor didn’t actually invite an immigrant to live in his home, spokesperson says

February 4, 2025, 8:41am Nation & World

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy sparked Republican outrage over recent comments suggesting he and the state’s first lady offered an immigrant with uncertain immigration status the opportunity to stay at their home, but he didn’t actually make the offer and the person never moved in, his spokesperson said Tuesday. Read story

FILE - Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China’s Hebei province, Nov. 10, 2023.

China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google

FILE - Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China’s Hebei province, Nov. 10, 2023.

February 4, 2025, 8:27am Business

China announced retaliatory tariffs on select American imports and an antitrust investigation into Google on Tuesday, just minutes after a sweeping levy on Chinese products imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump took effect. Read story

FILE - Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, foreground right, shakes hands with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he left the the 57th Independence Celebration in Mulinu’u, Samoa, on June 1, 2019. At foreground left is Kennedy’s wife, actress Cheryl Hines. Kennedy said the trip was arranged by Edwin Tamasese, a local anti-vaccine influencer.

RFK Jr. misled the US Senate on measles deaths, Samoa’s health chief says

FILE - Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, foreground right, shakes hands with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he left the the 57th Independence Celebration in Mulinu’u, Samoa, on June 1, 2019. At foreground left is Kennedy’s wife, actress Cheryl Hines. Kennedy said the trip was arranged by Edwin Tamasese, a local anti-vaccine influencer.

February 4, 2025, 8:25am Health

Samoa’s top health official on Monday denounced as “a complete lie” remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become U.S. health secretary, rejecting his claim that some who died in the country’s 2019 measles epidemic didn’t have the disease. Read story

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, and El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco sign a memorandum of understanding regarding civil nuclear cooperation between their countries at the Intercontinental Real Hotel in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.

Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from U.S. of any nationality, including Americans

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, and El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco sign a memorandum of understanding regarding civil nuclear cooperation between their countries at the Intercontinental Real Hotel in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.

February 4, 2025, 8:24am Nation & World

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country’s president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States. Read story

Trump administration hires hardcore pro-Trump ideologue to run public diplomacy at State Department

February 4, 2025, 8:11am Business

The Trump administration has hired a “Make America Great Again” ideologue to run the State Department’s worldwide public diplomacy efforts, according to the man put forward for the post and three current department officials. Read story