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Inside the Beverly Hills Hotel where LA’s stars are fleeing the flames
While many forced to evacuate sought shelter at the homes of relatives or public shelters, those who can have flocked to the $US1000-a-night five-star hotel.
- by Susie Coen
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California bushfires
‘Unimaginable terror’: Firefighters race to contain LA fires before worsening conditions
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has offered his condolences to the family of an Australian man who is among the 24 people who have been killed in the Los Angeles fires.
- by Nathan Frandino and Jackie Luna
LA fires live updates: Palisades, Eaton fires continue to burn as death toll rises; extreme winds predicted to return; police arrest dozens for looting
Los Angeles firefighters are making slow progress ahead of predicted worsening conditions. Follow our live coverage.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Trudeau ready to slap Trump with counter-tariffs in potential trade war
Canada buys more US-made goods than any other country – about $520 billion in the first 11 months of last year.
- by Curtis Heinzl
What caused the Palisades fire? Investigation points to New Year’s Eve blaze
Analysis of photos, videos, satellite imagery and radio communications, as well as interviews with witnesses, offers new evidence as to how the catastrophe started.
- by Brianna Sacks, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Imogen Piper and Aaron C. Davis
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US politics
Pious Carter and profane Trump were very different, but not in every way
Both the late Jimmy Carter and the resurgent Donald Trump prided themselves on being outsiders and breaking norms, and they both were suffused with grievances.
- by Maureen Dowd
LA fires as it happened: Death toll rises as residents return to scenes of devastation
Firefighters are still battling fierce infernos across Los Angeles as residents return to burnt-out neighbourhoods to be met with scenes of devastation. Follow our live coverage.
- by Josefine Ganko and Bianca Hall
Los Angeles prepares for return of strong winds as fire death toll rises to 16
Authorities unleashed a “relentless air attack” on the Palisades fire after changes in wind direction set it burning towards homes in Mandeville Canyon, Encino and Brentwood.
- by Michael Koziol
LA’s fire chief is at the centre of a public spat with city’s mayor as wildfires rage
The public division prompted so much speculation about the fire chief’s job security that the union was forced to issue a statement assuring rank-and-file members that she had not been fired.
- by Maryclaire Dale
Amid Los Angeles evacuations, fears of looting take hold
Officials announced 22 arrests in the two evacuation zones as of Saturday morning US time, most of them for burglary or looting, and enacted a curfew.
- by Emily Baumgaertner and Ryan Mac
For less than the minimum wage, inmates fight California’s fires
Firefighting prisoners are members of a controversial Californian conservation fire camp program.
- by Amelia Nierenberg
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