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Jan. 6 Report Leaves Questions About What Happened in Trump’s S.U.V.  The New York Times

Transcripts reveal Cassidy Hutchinson was pressured to protect Trump: ‘I was scared’  The Guardian US

The frigid Christmas storm has killed at least 18 people across the country, trapping some residents inside homes with snow drifts, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes. (Image credit: Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP)

One town is protecting a statue of St. Nick with sandbags, another is putting its Christmas tree underground and others are cranking up noisy generators to keep the holiday spirit alive.

Members of France’s Kurdish community and anti-racism activists joined together in mourning and anger on Saturday in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center. (Image credit: Lewis Joly/AP)

Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism. (Image credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Even Canadians accustomed to the vagaries of Arctic weather systems contended with a long list of extremes, including cold that “freezes flesh in minutes.”

The Taliban government have ordered all non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. (Image credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

A judge rejected the Republican’s claim that problems with ballot printers on Election Day were the result of intentional misconduct. Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs by just over 17,000 votes. (Image credit: Ross D. Franklin/AP)

Scores more are injured in the assault on the southern city’s center, Ukraine’s president says, denouncing the strike as terror.