{"id":213700,"date":"2025-01-12T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/monday-briefing-number-of-missing-rises-in-l-a\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T20:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:55:24","slug":"monday-briefing-number-of-missing-rises-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/monday-briefing-number-of-missing-rises-in-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Briefing: Number of Missing Rises in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/12\/multimedia\/13ambriefing-asia-fire\/13ambriefing-asia-fire-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Monday Briefing: Number of Missing Rises in L.A.\" title=\"Monday Briefing: Number of Missing Rises in L.A.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-16ffc37f\">Number of missing rises as Los Angeles fires continue<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Firefighters made some progress to contain the multiple wildfires across the city on Sunday as more desert winds arrived. The blazes have killed at least 16 people, and Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said that the number of missing increased by the hour. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/01\/12\/us\/los-angeles-fires-california\" title=\"\">Follow our live coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Entire neighborhoods have been destroyed, and the kind of gusts that have propelled the fires were expected to return after a possible reprieve. Even as crews managed to stop the momentum of the large Palisades fire, fire risk remained high in the region. More than 100,000 residents were still under evacuation orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Eaton fire, which has killed at least 11 people, is now among the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/california-eaton-palisades-deadliest-fire-worst.html\" title=\"\">deadliest in California history<\/a>. Search teams with cadaver dogs scoured neighborhoods razed by the flames. Here\u2019s what we <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/09\/us\/california-fires-victims.html\" title=\"\">know about the victims of the fires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Political criticism:<\/strong> California politicians have faced questions about their preparation. President-elect Donald Trump called state officials \u201cincompetent\u201d on his Truth Social site and renewed a longstanding feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/us\/trump-los-angeles-fire-newsom-bass.html\" title=\"\">who has said Trump was politicizing the destruction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-57bf9799\">A potential turning point in Sudan\u2019s civil war<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Sudanese military this week recaptured the city of Wad Madani from the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., a paramilitary group that had overtaken the city just over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If the military were able to maintain control there, experts say, it would be the most significant victory since the war began nearly two years ago and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/11\/world\/africa\/sudan-military-recaptures-city.html\" title=\"\">could reshape the battlefield<\/a>. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, the leader of the R.S.F., vowed to soon take back the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sudanese residents flocked to the streets of Khartoum, the capital, to celebrate the victory as church bells pealed in Port Sudan. They hoped the news might signal a turning point in a civil war that has led to massacres, ethnic cleansing and a spreading famine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Related: <\/strong>Last week, the U.S. determined that the R.S.F. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/07\/world\/africa\/sudan-rsf-genocide-us-sanctions.html\" title=\"\">had committed genocide in Sudan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-23bd57f8\">Digital gambling spreads in Brazil<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The animal lottery, a gambling game, has been for decades a daily fixture for many Brazilians and has fueled bloody mafia disputes. Digital gambling, though, is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/world\/americas\/brazil-lottery-online-gambling-jogo-do-bicho.html\" title=\"\">reshaping how people place wagers and upending organized crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Digital gambling, legalized in Brazil in 2018, has set off a frenzy in the country and forced officials to determine how to regulate the industry. One frequent gambler, who grew up in the fringes of Rio de Janeiro, estimates that she lost roughly 78,000 euros over two years using a gambling app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Digital alternatives now draw over 22 billion euros in wagers each year, 10 times the amount originating from the analog game. Some of that money has come from the animal lottery bosses themselves \u2014 who have used legal betting sites to launder revenues.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Mozambique, a country known for its lush forests and emerald waters, Islamic State militants have rampaged across a region the size of Austria for more than seven years. The government has said the crisis has stabilized, but residents, many of them bearing physical and psychic scars, say otherwise. Nearly 6,000 people have been killed and up to half of the 2.3 million people in Cabo Delgado Province have been displaced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Our colleagues traveled to the country in October to speak with and photograph residents who are trying to find a sense of normalcy and reckon with the conflict. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/world\/africa\/mozambique-insurgency-cabo-delgado.html\" title=\"\">Read about what they learned here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Lives lived:<\/strong> Mauro Morandi, known as Italy\u2019s Robinson Crusoe for living alone on a Mediterranean island for 32 years, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/10\/world\/europe\/mauro-morandi-dead.html\" title=\"\">died at 85<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-598820bf\">The politics of ham<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When a priest in St.-Flour, France, struggled to raise funds for the restoration of his cathedral\u2019s antique organ, he came up with a novel solution. He turned one of the bell towers into a curing workshop, where for nearly two years farmers could hang their hams to dry. (After the meat was blessed by a local bishop, of course.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But an architectural heritage inspector with more of a taste for red tape than red meat stepped in and ordered the ham to be taken down after finding infractions like a grease stain on the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cathedral refused, and the dispute escalated to the desk of France\u2019s minister of culture. The issue appeared hyperlocal, but it raised a broader question facing the nation: <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/world\/europe\/france-cathedral-hams-organ.html\" title=\"\">Who is going to pay to maintain the country\u2019s vast religious heritage<\/a>?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-705d9918\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">RECOMMENDATIONS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/12\/briefing\/los-angeles-fires-sudan-brazil-gambling.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of missing rises as Los Angeles fires continue Firefighters made some progress to contain the multiple wildfires across the city on Sunday as more desert winds arrived. The blazes have killed at least 16 people, and Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County said that the number of missing increased by the hour. 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